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Stephane Hessel remained active into his 90s
O TEAM DA FOLHINHA CONFESSA COM HUMILDADE QUE NUNCA TINHA OUVIDO FALAR DESTE ESCRITOR.
PORÉM, SEGUNDO O ARTIGO DA BBC, O HOMEM ERA MESMO O MÁXIMO. JUDEU FRANCÊS DE ORIGEM ALEMÃ, ELE FOI ENVIADO PARA OS CAMPOS DE CONCENTROU E NÃO SABEMOS COMO ELE ESCAPOU ÀS CÂMARAS DE GÁS.FOI MEMBRO DA RESISTÊNCIA FRANCESA DURANTE A II GUERRA MUNDIAL E PARTICIPOU RECENTEMENTE NO MOVIMENTO OCUPAR CONTRA A BANCA-CASINO.
TODAVIA, ELE VIVEU, E PELO QUE A BBC DIZ,, O ESCRITOR FOI UM COMBATENTE ATIVO E INCANSÁVEL CONTRAS AS INJUSTIÇAS ATÉ À MORTE AOS 95 ANOS!
EN FRANÇA, ELE FOI UM GRANDE DEFENSOR DOS IMIGRANTES ILEGAIS, OS QUAIS SÃO EM ALGUNS PAÍSES PERSEGUIDOS COMO ANIMAIS. A MAIOR PARTE DESTA GENTE FOGE DOS PAÍSES DE ORIGEM TAMBÉM DEVIDO À PERSEGUIÇÃO POR RAZÕES VÁRIAS, INCLUINDO AS CONDIÇÕES PRECÁRIAS DE VIDA.A FOLHINHA MANIFESTA AQUI TODO O RESPEITO POR STEPHANE HESSE E PROMETE DESCOBRIR MAIS SOBRE A VIDA EXEMPLAR DESTE HOMEM.27 February 2013 Last updated at 12:10Share this page
Inspirational FrenTIVAMENTEch writer Stephane Hessel dies at 95
Stephane Hessel remained active into his 90s
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 France's AFP news agency in Paris.
A German by birth, he was imprisoned in Nazi camps during World War II for his activities in France.
In Time for Outrage, he called for a new form of "resistance" to the injustices of the modern world.
He expressed outrage at the growing gap between haves and have-nots, France's treatment of illegal immigrants and damage to the environment.
The Indignados protest movement in Spain was inspired by Hessel's manifesto, according to Spanish media.
The 95-year-old's name was the top trending term on Twitter in Spain and France on Wednesday morning, as admirers paid tribute with quotes such as: "To create is to resist, to resist is to create."
French President Francois Hollande said he had learnt "with great sadness" about Hessel's death.
"His capacity for indignation knew no bounds other than those of his own life," he said in a statement. "As that comes to an end, he leaves us a lesson: to refuse to accept any injustice."
Camp survivor
Born of Jewish origin on 20 October 1917 in Berlin, Hessel arrived in France at the age of eight.
His parents Franz and Helen Hessel (born Grund) inspired two of the characters in Francois Truffaut's classic romantic film Jules And Jim.
A naturalised French citizen from 1939, Hessel became a prominent Resistance figure, says French news agency AFP. He was arrested by the Gestapo and later sent to the Buchenwald and Dora concentration camps.
After the war, Hessel worked as a French diplomat at the UN, where he was involved in compiling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
However some, like the French Jewish activist Gilles-William Goldnadel, have accused him of exaggerating his role in the work.
According to Mr Goldnadel, France's leftist press idealised the former Resistance fighter, a strong critic of Israeli policy, as a "secular saint".
Hessel's diplomatic postings also included Vietnam in the 1950s and Algeria in the 1960s.
In France, he took up the cause of illegal immigrants and championed the rights of the oppressed.
Time for Outrage, which has sold more than 4.5m copies in 35 countries, argues that the French need to again become outraged like those who participated in the wartime Resistance.
Whether Hessel inspired the global Occupy movement, as some have argued, is more open to debate.
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Comment number28.
Joe Pertinent
2 MINUTES AGOCouldn't agree more with W.Peters at post 3. An example of this expectation that people should blindly accept 'authority' was media reporting of last week's Vicky Pryce trial. So many of these shallow journalists were asking if the jury was stupid, simply because it asked ten extremely relevant and important questions in order to have clarity before making a decision about a woman's future.' -
Comment number27.
In Gold I Trust
4 MINUTES AGOI am really glad us licence payers are allowed to comment, via a website we all pay for, on such an important ground breaking story.
and now for that news again (in a Trevor McDonald insincere way)..."someone you never heard of before, somewhere, has died.." -
Comment number26.
waynebb
4 MINUTES AGOInteresting comments from some of the 'nobody's' on here - of whom I consider myself one. Some cheap shots as usual, wonder how many of the clever dicks writing in spent any time in Buchenwald for their beliefs? Thought not....
Celebrating his life doesn't detract from the other brave millions who took a stand. The fact he was motivated enough to protest in his 90s says something about him. -
Comment number25.
ThinkAboutWhatYouAreSaying
6 MINUTES AGOAnyone who risked their lives standing up to the Nazis is a hero, particularly those in the French Resistance as they were doing so in a country controlled by the Germans.
However, does comparing the Resistance to the occupy movement not trivialise the incredible sacrifice made by millions fighting oppression in the Second World War? -
Comment number24.
ProfPhoenix
10 MINUTES AGOLoved the environment did he? Bit of a warmist eh? Thought France wasn't kind enough to immigrants. Did he write for the Guardian? Any chance of a BBC documentary on him? Can't say his contribution to literature was up to much.
