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Stéphane Hessel was precisely such a figure; The fact that Hessel’s name – and certainly his critique – remains largely unknown in Israel is no coincidence. It reflects a deeper difficulty: the ...

Remembering the French resistance spy, diplomat, Buchenwald survivor and human rights defender. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

PARIS — As a spy for the French Resistance, Stephane Hessel survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the identity of a French prisoner who was already dead. As a diplomat, he helped ...

Stephane Hessel, the former French Resistance fighter whose 2010 manifesto Time for Outrage inspired social protesters, has died aged 95. Hessel died overnight, his wife Christiane Hessel-Chabry told ...

The former French Resistance fighter Stéphane Hessel has died at the age of 95. Hessel joined the French Resistance during World War II, was caught by the Gestapo and sent to the Buchenwald ...

Stephane Hessel, who fought with the French Army and the Resistance in World War II, was imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald. After the war he served as a French and UN diplomat ...

Not many people find themselves propelled suddenly to worldwide celebrity in their 90s. This is what happened, however, to Stéphane Hessel, who has died aged 95. Having had a distinguished career ...

Stéphane Hessel, who died in Paris on Wednesday, February 27, 2013, and was born in Berlin in 1917, the very month the Russian Revolution started, was probably the ...

The story of the French author Stéphane Hessel's long and extraordinary life reads like a Boy's Own adventure. From his childhood in Berlin and then Paris, where he was brought up by his writer and ...

Hessel was a lifelong friend of the French statesman Pierre Mendès-France, sadly concluding that “our great man wasn’t made for the Fifth Republic”, and a co-founder of the Club Jean-Moulin with other ...