Jacques Panijel

Born: 2021-09-22

Jacques Panijel, born on September 22, 1921, of Romanian origin, and died on September 12, 2010, in Paris, was an immunologist, biologist, writer, filmmaker, and anti-colonial activist. A member of the Combat resistance network, and a maquis fighter at the age of twenty, Jacques Panijel participated in the establishment of the National Maquis Service. After the Liberation, he spent a year at the Ministry of War as head of the 1st Bureau. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre, the...