Anatole Lewitsky

Anatole Lewitsky (22 August 1903 – 23 February 1942) was a French anthropologist and member of the French Resistance in World War II.

He was head of the European-Asiatic department at the Musée de l'Homme, and a world authority on Siberian shamanism.

He founded, with Boris Vildé and Yvonne Oddon the resistance group Groupe du musée de l'Homme.

He was killed by firing squad, together with Léon-Maurice Nordmann, Georges Ithier, Jules Andrieu, René Sénéchal, Pierre Walter and Boris Vildé, on 23 February 1942 at Fort Mont-Valérien.

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