Robert Hébras

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
OccupationsWriter
Resistant
Known forSurvivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre

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.

He was born in Oradour-sur-Glane, the son of Jean, a tramway maintenance official and Marie, a seamstress. 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.

In 2014, he published a memoir, Avant que ma voix s’éteigne. Hébras died in 2023 at age 97. He was the last living survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.

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