Robert Hébras

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.

Robert Hébras
Robert Hébras in 2008
Born(1925-06-29)29 June 1925
Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Died11 February 2023(2023-02-11) (aged 97)
Saint-Junien, France
Occupation(s)Writer
Resistant
Known forSurvivor 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]

Granddaughter Delphine Hébras, 99-year-old Jean Serog, Robert Hébras, and Austria's ambassador in Paris, Hubert Heiss

Awards and decorations

Citations
  1. Genzlinger, Neil (February 26, 2023). "Robert Hébras, Last Survivor of a 1944 Massacre in France, Dies at 97". New York Times. Vol. 172, no. 59711. p. A26. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  2. "Diekmann, Adolf Otto - TracesOfWar.com". www.tracesofwar.com.
  3. Hébras, Robert (2014). Avant que ma voix s’éteigne (in French). Montfort-l'Amaury: Elytel. ISBN 9782917182093.
  4. "Robert Hébras, dernier survivant du massacre d'Oradour-sur-Glane, est mort". Le Monde (in French). 11 February 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  5. "Décret du 13 juillet 2010 portant promotion et nomination". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2022-04-30..
  6. "Décret du 11 avril 2001 portant promotion et nomination". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2022-04-30..
  7. "Décret du 31 décembre 2020 portant promotion et nomination dans l'ordre national du Mérite". legifrance.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2022-04-30..
  8. Franck Petit (30 November 2019). "Les palmes académiques pour le dernier survivant d'Oradour-Sur-Glane". France 3. Retrieved 8 June 2020..
  9. Pascal Coussy (20 September 2012). "Robert Hébras décoré par le consul d'Allemagne". France 3 Limousin. Retrieved 21 September 2021.

References
  • Hébras, Robert (1992). Oradour-Sur-Glane, Le drame heure par heure [Oradour-Sur-Glane, The drama hour by hour] (in French). Editions C.M.D. ISBN 2-909826-00-7.
  • Desourtreaux, André; Hébras, Robert (2003). Oradour/Glane, notre village assassiné [Oradour-Sur-Glane, our assassinated village] (in French). Chemins de la Memoire. ISBN 2-84702-003-9.
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