Jacqueline Guerroudj

Jacqueline Netter-Minne-Guerroudj (27 April 1919 18 January 2015)[1] was a Frenchwoman condemned to death as an accomplice of Fernand Iveton during the Algerian War.[2] She was never executed, partly due to a campaign on her behalf conducted by Simone de Beauvoir.[3]

Jacqueline Guerroudj
Born(1919-04-27)April 27, 1919
DiedJanuary 18, 2015(2015-01-18) (aged 95)
Other namesJacqueline Netter-Minne-Guerroudj
Spouses

She was born to a well-off bourgeois family of Alsatian Jews in Rouen in 1919. She arrived in Algeria in 1948 as the wife of Pierre Minne, a professor of philosophy.[4] She remarried in 1950 to Abdelkader Guerroudj (nicknamed "Djilali"), an activist in the FLN. On 4 December 1957 Guerroudj's daughter by her first marriage, Danièle Minne, was sentenced to 7 years in prison by a tribunal for juveniles.[5] Guerroudj died on 18 January 2015 in Algiers, Algeria.

Published works

  • Des douars et des prisons (in French). Bouchene. 1993. ISBN 9782841090037.

References

  1. Jacqueline Guerroudj at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French)
  2. "Décès de la moudjahida Jacqueline Guerroudj" (in French). Algerie Presse Service. 19 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-06-11.
  3. Tidd 1999, p. 111.
  4. Dore-Audibert 1995, p. 142.
  5. Dore-Audibert 1995, p. 146.


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