Stéphane Hessel (1917–2013)
Författare till Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous!
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Stéphane Hessel was born in Berlin, Germany in 1917. During World War II, he joined the resistance movement. In March 1944, he was on a mission to contact underground activists in Paris, but was captured and tortured by waterboarding. He survived by giving out false information and was sent to visa mer Buchenwald concentration camp. He escaped hanging by exchanging identities with a French soldier who had died of typhoid fever. He was then sent to a different camp, where he managed to escape and return to Paris, which had by then been liberated. After the war, he became a diplomat, working as an official for the United Nations, where he participated in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted in 1948. He later held diplomatic posts in Algeria and Vietnam. He wrote or contributed to several books including Danse Avec le Siècle (Dance with the Century) and Indignez-Vous! (Time for Outrage!). He died on February 26, 2013 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: Stéphane Hessel, 2010. Photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.
Verk av Stéphane Hessel
The Power of Indignation: The Autobiography of the Man Who Inspired the Arab Spring (2011) 17 exemplar
Dalla parte giusta: Un secolo di passione civile nella testimonianza di un grande protagonista (2011) 3 exemplar
Le Rescapé et l'Exilé. Israël-Palestine, une exigence de justice (NON FICTION) (French Edition) (2012) 2 exemplar
La violente esperance de Stéphane 1 exemplar
¡Indignaos!: El mayor alegato a favor de la insurrección pacífica que sigue inspirando a los… 1 exemplar
¡Comprometeos!: Ya no basta con indignarse 1 exemplar
Stéphane Hessel: les perspectives d'un engagement: [Actes du colloque organisé à Grenoble le 14 janvier… (2020) — Honoree — 1 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Hessel, Stéphane
- Andra namn
- HESSEL, Stephane Frederic
HESSEL, Stéphane - Födelsedag
- 1917-10-20
- Avled
- 2013-02-26
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- France
Germany (birth) - Land (för karta)
- France
- Födelseort
- Berlin, Germany
- Dödsort
- Paris, France
- Yrken
- diplomat
- Relationer
- Hessel-Chabry, Christiane (wife)
Hessel, Franz (father) - Organisationer
- French Resistance
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Grand Cross of the Ordre National du Merite (1999)
Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor (2006)
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Indignez-vous ! de Stéphane Hessel i Lectures des francophones (juni 2011)
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