Tillion also publicly condemned the Soviet camps in the 1950s, and recently she spoke out against the torture in Iraq.
Germaine Tillion, who was born in May 1907, became interested in studying the Berber people in Algeria in the 1930s, but in 1940, she went back to Paris to lead the Museum of Man resistance network. However, she was betrayed and sent to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp in 1942.
Tillion finished her doctorate in the latter years of the 1940s and began working as an adviser to the French government in Algeria.
Germaine Tillion also wrote books about Algeria and her wartime experiences in the concentration camp.
