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Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist, anthropologist, Resistance fighter, and writer. She was born on 30 May 1907 in Allègre, Haute-Loire, France. She was the daughter of a schoolteacher and a doctor. Tillion studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and received her doctorate in ethnology in 1933. She was a professor at the University of Algiers from 1936 to 1940. During World War II, Tillion joined the French Resistance and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943. She was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, where she remained until 1945. After the war, she wrote several books about her experiences in the camp. Tillion was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1947 and the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor in 1988. She was also awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1988. Tillion died on 8 April 2008 in Paris, France. She was 100 years old.

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Occupation writer
Age 101 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 30 May, 1907
Birthday 30 May
Birthplace Allègre, Haute-Loire, France
Date of death 19 April, 2008
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality France

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2009

She was a writer, known for Germaine Tillion à Ravensbrück: Le verfügbar aux enfers (2009), À propos de. . .

1985

l'autre détail (1985) and Un combat singulier (2004).

1930

She studied anthropology, and did field research on semi-nomadic tribes in Algeria in the 1930s. She wrote a 700-page ethnography on one tribe, but the manuscript disappeared after the Nazis sent her to Ravensbruck, a camp for women and children, in 1943. She reconstructed the study from memory decades later, and it was published in 2000.

1907

Germaine Tillion was born on May 30, 1907 in Allègre, Haute-Loire, France.