Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist and academic (died 2008)

Germaine Tillion

French anthropologist, member of the French Resistance in World War II (1907–2008)

Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist, known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the Government of France. A member of the French Resistance in World War II, she spent time in Ravensbrück concentration camp.