Stéphane Hessel

Stéphane Hessel was a French diplomat, writer, and Resistance member who survived imprisonment in Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora during World War II. After the war, he entered the French diplomatic service and contributed to the work surrounding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations. His 2010 pamphlet Indignez-vous! made him an internationally recognized advocate for human rights and civic resistance.