Annie Steiner

Annie Steiner was an Algerian FLN activist born on February 7, 1928, in Hadjout (formerly Marengo), French Algeria, and died on April 21, 2021. She became involved in the Social Centers and became a member of Yacef Saâdi's "bomb network." Arrested on October 15, 1956, she was sentenced in March 1957 by the Armed Forces Tribunal in Algiers to five years' imprisonment for aiding the FLN. She was then incarcerated in Barberousse Prison before being released in 1961. Born in 1928, she was Algerian of French descent, the daughter of pieds-noirs. Graduating in 1949, she worked in the Algerian Social Centers, created by Germaine Tillion, where their mission was to provide medical assistance and literacy training. It was during this period that she and her colleagues encountered the plight of the Algerians. She came into contact with FLN activists. She explains: "I wasn't active in any party, and the Algerians probably found my decision surprising. They may have investigated me and accepted m...