Germaine Tillion, 100, a celebrated anthropologist and French Resistance fighter during World War II, who wrote about her experiences in a Nazi camp, died April 19 at her home near Paris. Tillion -- ...

On 13 August 1942, Germaine Tillion, a young French ethnologist and resistance fighter, was arrested by the German occupying authorities while at a Paris railway station, having been denounced by a ...

A circa 1941 photo of Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist and member of the French resistance. Staff Writer A new book aims to preserve the stories of the prisoners at an all-female Nazi ...

World War II isn’t a new subject for historian Lynne Olson. But her latest book, The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück, covers the unique story of the war’s only all-female concentration camp. Clockwise from ...

A noted French sociologist, GERMAINE TILLION is instructor of ethnology at the École des Hautes Études in Paris. For six years she lived in the mountainous Aurès region of Algeria, where she mastered ...

A new book aims to preserve the stories of the prisoners at an all-female Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust, who resisted their captors as much as possible. Lynne Olson’s The Sisterhood of ...

A darkly comic operetta written by a French Resistance heroine is to have its premiere today in Paris, more than 60 years after she secretly wrote it in the Nazi concentration camp of Ravensbrück.

PARIS—Germaine Tillion, a French World War II Resistance fighter and celebrated anthropologist, died Saturday, her association said. She was 100. Tillion, who wrote about her experiences in a Nazi ...

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