Robert Hébras

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Robert Hébras
Robert Hébras in 2008
Born	(1925-06-29)29 June 1925 Oradour-sur-Glane, France
Died	11 February 2023(2023-02-11) (aged 97) Saint-Junien, France
Occupation(s)	Writer Resistant
Known for	Survivor of the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre

Robert Hébras (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.^[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]

• 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]

• 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.

• Interview with Robert Hébras