Denise Vernay, born Jacob, and Germaine Tillion. Crossed portraits
sunday February 15, 2026 at 2 PM
As part of the exhibition Simone Veil. My sisters and I
Denise Jacob (left) is 19 years old when she enters the resistance, under the name of Miarka. A liaison officer in Lyon, she was arrested on June 18, 1944. She is deported to the Ravensbrück camp and then to Mauthausen, while at the same time her family, including her little sister Simone, is plunged into the night of the Holocaust. We will propose a sensitive portrait of Denise–Miarka by notably summoning her correspondence and her intimate and poetic writings. Portrait crossed with that of Germaine Tillion who, in June 1940, young ethnologist, engaged in the Resistance, in the group "Network of the museum of the Hauet-Vildé Man". Denounced, she is arrested on August 13, 1942, incarcerated at the prison of the Health then of Fresnes, and deported on October 21, 1943 in Ravensbrück.
In the presence of Antoine de Meaux, writer, poet, director, author of Miarka (Phébus, 2020), Lorraine de Meaux, historian, author of Germaine Tillion, a certain idea of resistance (Perrin, 2024), and DavidTeboul, curator of the exhibition.
In conversation with Claire Andrieu, historian, professor emeritus of universities.
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