Stéphane Hessel, German-French diplomat and author (born 1917)

Stéphane Hessel

Writer, Holocaust survivor and French Resistance member

Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of…