Robert Hébras

Writer

Birthday June 29, 1925

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Oradour-sur-Glane, France

DEATH DATE 2023-2-11, Saint-Junien, France (97 years old)

Nationality Germany

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1925

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.

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

1944

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.

2014

In 2014, he published a memoir, Avant que ma voix s’éteigne.

Hébras died on 11 February 2023, at the age of 97.

He was the last living survivor from the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.