Robert Hébras
One of the survivors of the 1944 Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
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Robert Hébras (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ ebʁas]; 29 June 1925 – 11 February 2023) was one of only six people to survive the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre by Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS Das Reich Panzer Division on 10 June 1944.
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 Robert Hébras in 2008 | |
| Born | 29 June 1925 Oradour-sur-Glane, France |
| Died | 11 February 2023 (aged 97) Saint-Junien, France |
| Occupations | 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 in 2023 at age 97. He was the last living survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.[4]
Awards and decorations
- Officer of the Legion of Honour (13 July 2010)[5]
- Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (9 June 2001)[6]
- Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite (25 January 2022)[7]
- Commander of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (30 November 2019)[8]
- Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2 June 2015)[9]