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Germaine Tillion (1907–2008)

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Fonte dell'immagine: Germaine Tillion le 12 décembre 2005 (en bleu) chez elle à Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, entourée de représentantes de la commune de Saint Avé en Bretagne dont la médiatèque inaugurée le 25 septembre 2005 porte son nom.

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Nome canonico
Tillion, Germaine
Nome legale
Tillion, Germaine
Data di nascita
1907-05-30
Data di morte
2008-04-19
Luogo di sepoltura
Panthéon, Paris, France
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
France
Nazione (per mappa)
France
Luogo di nascita
Allègre, Auvergne, France
Luogo di morte
Saint-Mandé, nr Paris, France
Luogo di residenza
Allegre, France (birth)
Paris, France (death)
Ravensbruck Concentration Camp
Sweden
Algeria
Istruzione
University of Paris
École pratique des hautes études
École du Louvre
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
Attività lavorative
anthropologist
ethnologist
resistance fighter
French Resistance
human rights activist
Relazioni
Oddon, Yvonne (resistance colleague)
Humbert, Agnès (resistance colleague)
Cassou, Jean (resistance colleague)
Organizzazioni
French Resistance (WWII)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor
Cino Del Duca prize
Bundesverdienstkreuz
Ordre national du Mérite
Croix de Guerre
Médaille de la Résistance
Breve biografia
As a child, Germaine Tillion was was particularly close to her mother Émilie Tillion, an art historian who also edited well-known travel books. She went to Paris to study oriental languages, then became interested in ethnology, obtaining postgraduate degrees from some of the most prestigious French universities. She did fieldwork in Algeria between 1934 and 1940 to prepare for her doctorate. She returned to France at the outbreak of World War II, just before the German invasion of her country. She later wrote: "When I heard Pétain's speech [asking for an armistice with Germany], I vomited. Literally. It takes one second for the course of a life to change for ever. . . Once the choice is made, one must hold to it." She chose the French Resistance. In October 1940, she helped to establish the resistance group based in the Musée de l'Homme in Paris. A few months later, the leaders of that network were arrested and shot. Tillion continued her resistance work with another group until she was herself arrested in 1942 and deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her mother, also in the Resistance, was arrested in 1944 and sent to the same camp. Tillion managed to keep and hide a journal and a comic operetta she was writing in the camp (it was later performed in honor of her 100th birthday). Her mother was killed, but Germaine Tillion survived. After liberation in 1945, she put aside her work on North Africa and began a decade of research on the concentration camps, trying to understand what she called the "history of the de-civilization of Europe." Her three books on Ravensbrück combined her personal memories with her professional analysis of their functioning. In 1954, Tillion was sent to Algeria by the French government to analyze and report on the Algerian War of Independence. She became famous for her efforts to end the cycle of violence during the French-Algerian struggle. By 1962, Tillion had returned to her anthropological research, also teaching in Paris, while continuing to be active in many social and political causes such as the emancipation of women and the end of torture. By the end of her long life, she had received numerous honors and decorations -- she was one of only five women to hold the Grand Croix of the Légion d'Honneur -- and historians had became interested in documenting her life. Two biographies of her appeared after 2000.

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