Djamila Amrane-Minne (Danièle Minne)
Source: University of Algiers & National Library of Algeria
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Djamila Amrane-Minne (Danièle Minne) 🇫🇷

جميلة عمران مين (دانييل مين) (Known as "Djamila Amrane")
ALN Maquisarde, Prisoner of Barberousse, Foremost Historian of Algerian Women Combatants
Born Aug 13, 1939 🇫🇷 Neuilly-sur-Seine (Algerian naturalized patriot), France
Passed Away Feb 11, 2017 Algiers, Algeria
Lifespan 77 years old
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"The history of Algeria's freedom was written by thousands of women whose bravery must never be forgotten."

Archival Overview

Freedom fighter in the ALN maquis of Wilaya 3, imprisoned in Barberousse, who became the pioneering university historian of women in the Algerian War.

Biographical Record

Danièle Minne, daughter of resistance heroine Jacqueline Guerroudj, adopted the name Djamila when she joined the FLN/ALN at age seventeen. Serving as an armed combatant in the maquis of Wilaya 3 in Kabylia, she was captured in 1957, sentenced to death, and incarcerated in Barberousse Prison until Algerian independence in 1962.

Following independence, she took Algerian citizenship and married ALN fighter Khellil Amrane. Becoming professor of history at the University of Algiers, she authored the definitive scholarly study 'Les Femmes algériennes dans la guerre' (Algerian Women in the War), recording and rescuing the oral histories of over 11,000 female combatants.

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El Alia Cemetery
Algiers, Algeria
GPS: 36.7267, 3.1611
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