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. 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 on 11 February 2023, at the age of 97. He was the last living survivor from the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre.



Awards and decorations

 * Officer of the Legion of Honour (13 July 2010)
 * Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (9 June 2001)
 * Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite (25 January 2022)
 * Commander of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (30 November 2019)
 * Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2 June 2015)