Stéphane Hessel

Stéphane Hessel was born in Berlin in 1917 into a Jewish family (his father was Proust’s German translator, while his mother was the character that inspired Roché and Truffaut for the famous Catherine of Jules e Jim), and grew up in France in the 1930s. He participated in the French Resistance and worked in the United Nations Secretariat after the war. He was one of the main writers of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.