Danièle Djamila Amrane-Minne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Danièle Djamila Amrane-Minne

French feminist

Date of Birth: 13-Aug-1939

Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 11-Feb-2017

Profession: writer, poet, activist, professeur des universités

Nationality: France, Algeria

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Danièle Djamila Amrane-Minne

  • See also Djamila BouhiredDanièle Minne (13 August 1939 at Neuilly-sur-Seine – February 2017) was one of the few European women convicted for assisting the FLN during the Algerian War.
  • Her mother Jacqueline Netter-Minne-Guerroudj and her stepfather Abdelkader Guerroudj, were both condemned to death as accomplices of Fernand Iveton, the only European who was guillotined for his part in the Algerian revolt.
  • Her mother was never executed, partly due to a campaign on her behalf conducted by Simone de Beauvoir; her stepfather was also freed. Danièle Minne joined the struggle when she was 17, going underground under the nom de guerre of Djamila.
  • Minne was considered a women combatant in the Algerian War known as a fidayat.
  • She "planted at least two bombs during the Battle of Algeris, and joined the maquis in wilaya 3 in 1957".
  • A historian, Alistair Horne, described one of Minne's missions: "The targets were the Otomatic, a favourite students's bar on the Rue Michelet; the Cafeteria opposite (second time over) and the Coq-Hardi, a popular brasserie…placed in the ladies' lavatory, Daniéle Minne's bomb in the Otomatic seriously injured a young girl and several others".Arrested and jailed in December 1956, she was sentenced, on 4 December 1957, to 7 years in prison by a juvenile tribunal. Freed after independence in 1962, she wrote a PhD dissertation on the participation of Algerian women in the war, based on interviews with eighty-eight women between 1978 and 1986; the dissertation was later published as a book, Des femmes dans la guerre d’Algérie (Karthala, Paris).
  • The book was the basis for the film Algeria: Women at War by Parminder Vir.Danièle Minne became Djamila Amrane by marriage in 1964.
  • She later worked at the University of Algiers but, by 1999, was a professor of history and feminist studies at the University of Toulouse.

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