Indignez-Vous!

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Scribe Publications, 2011 - 57 pages
Stephane Hessel, Resistance fighter and concentration-camp survivor, tells the young of today that their lives and liberties are worth fighting for. Remembering the ideals for which he risked his life, while never forgetting the evils against which he struggled, the now 93-year-old writer and diplomat calls on all of us to take back the rights that have slowly slipped away since the Second World War ended.
With sales of this masterful polemic topping a million copies in France, and a bestseller in Germany, Italy, and Spain as well, Indignez-Vous! is proudly published as a unique bilingual edition in Australia and New Zealand by Scribe.

À propos de l'auteur (2011)

Stéphane Hessel was born in Berlin, Germany in 1917. During World War II, he joined the resistance movement. In March 1944, he was on a mission to contact underground activists in Paris, but was captured and tortured by waterboarding. He survived by giving out false information and was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. He escaped hanging by exchanging identities with a French soldier who had died of typhoid fever. He was then sent to a different camp, where he managed to escape and return to Paris, which had by then been liberated. After the war, he became a diplomat, working as an official for the United Nations, where he participated in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted in 1948. He later held diplomatic posts in Algeria and Vietnam. He wrote or contributed to several books including Danse Avec le Siècle (Dance with the Century) and Indignez-Vous! (Time for Outrage!). He died on February 26, 2013 at the age of 95.

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