Holocaust survivor Stephane Hessel dies at 95
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 27, 2013 22:52Best-selling French writer, veteran diplomat and concentration camp survivor Stephane Hessel, whose work inspired protest movements worldwide, has died at the age of 95, his wife announced Wednesday.
The German-born Hessel, who became a naturalised French citizen in 1939 and was a prominent Resistance figure during World War II, died overnight Tuesday, Christiane Hessel-Chabry told AFP.
He was arrested by the Gestapo and later moved to the Buchenwald and Dora concentration camps.
After the end of the war, Hessel was involved in editing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He also took up the cause of illegal immigrants and championed the rights of the downtrodden.
“Time for Outrage,” his 2010 essay that sold more than 4.5 million copies in 35 countries, provoked the “Occupy Wall Street” movement which began in New York’s financial district and spread to other countries.
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