Episode Details

Annie Sargent talks with Elyse Rivin about two women honored in the Panthéon. Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Germaine Tillion both joined the French Resistance as young women. Both got arrested. Both survived deportation to Ravensbrück, where they met and became lifelong friends.

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Annie and Elyse trace what happened next: one fought poverty for decades, the other became a pioneering ethnologist and later negotiated during the Algerian War of Independence. It's a hard story, but a rewarding one. Annie also shares a Calder exhibition worth planning a trip around, plus a warning about pickpockets targeting tourists in Paris. Subscribe to Join Us in France so you never miss an episode.

Table of Contents for this Episode

• Today on the podcast: Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Germaine Tillion
• Podcast supporters
• Magazine segment
• Why These Women Matter
• Meet the Two Heroes
• Geneviève Early Life
• Facing Nazism Early
• Musée de l'Homme Network
• Betrayal and Arrest
• Ravensbrück Camp
• Friendship with Tillion
• Release and Aftermath
• Politics and Anti Poverty
• Poverty to Despair
• ATD Fourth World Fight