Denise Vernay, née Jacob, and Germaine Tillion. Crossed portraits

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 was deported to the camps of Ravensbrück and then Mauthausen, while at the same time her family, including her little sister Simone, was plunged into the night of the Shoah. We will propose a sensitive portrait of Denise–Miarka by summoning in particular her correspondence and her intimate and poetic writings. Portrait crossed with that of Germaine Tillion who, in June 1940, a young ethnologist, engaged in the Resistance, in the group "Réseau du musée de l'Homme Hauet‐Vildé". Denounced, she was arrested on 13 August 1942, incarcerated in the prison of La Santé then Fresnes, and deported on 21 October 1943 to 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 and professor emeritus of universities.