Robert Hébras

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.

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