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Robert Hébras
Robert Hébras (born 29 June 1925 in Oradour-sur-Glane) is one of only six persons to survive the massacre of Oradour on 10 June 1944.
Biography.
Marguerite Rouffanche was the only female survivor of this mass murder, which became a national allegory for SS atrocity in the post war period in France. She was the only one who escaped from the village church which became a deadly trap, where 207 children and 254 women suffocated or were burned alive by SS soldiers.
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1983, he took part in the lawsuit against one of the assassins of Oradour – Heinz Barth – as a witness in the former GDR. In 2003 a documentary movie was published, titled "Encounter with Robert Hébras - On the trail of extinguished life" (“Begegnung mit Robert Hébras - Auf den Spuren ausgelöschten Lebens") by the German filmmaker Bodo Kaiser.
Robert Hébras makes himself particular worthy through the memory and the processing time of National Socialism and through his commitment as a contemporary witness and as a writer.