Robert Hébras
One of the survivors of the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Robert Hébras (29 June 1925 – 11 February 2023) was one of only six people to survive the massacre of Oradour by Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS Das Reich Panzer Division on 10 June 1944.
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Robert Hébras | |
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Born | (1925-06-29)29 June 1925 |
Died | 11 February 2023(2023-02-11) (aged 97) |
Occupation(s) | Writer Resistant |
Known for | Survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre |
He was born in Oradour-sur-Glane, the son of Jean, a tramway maintenance official and Marie, a seamstress.[1] Adolf Diekmann, the Waffen-SS officer who commanded the battalion that perpetrated the massacre, was killed in action in Normandy on 29 June 1944, coincidentally Hébras's 19th birthday.[2]
In 2014, he published a memoir, Avant que ma voix s’éteigne.[3] Hébras died on 11 February 2023, at the age of 97. He was the last living survivor from the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.[4]