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Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971) was a French writer and member of the Resistance. Blinded in childhood, he founded a resistance group during World War II and survived deportation to Buchenwald.
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And There Was Light
An autobiography by Jacques Lusseyran, a young Frenchman who became blind at the age of eight and discovered an inner light that guided him through the darkness of war and captivity. He recounts his involvement in the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation and his survival in Buchenwald concentration camp, offering a profound testimony of courage, faith, and spiritual perception.
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Childhood and the Discovery of Inner Light
My story begins in Paris, where I was a lively boy surrounded by movement and color. The accident that took my sight was sudden—a fall in a classroom, a collision, a sharp piece of furniture. My parents were devastated, yet in those early days after blindness, I began to notice that life had only ch...
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Adolescence and the Awakening of Responsibility
In the years leading to war, Paris was changing. The sound of tension was everywhere—arguments at cafés, radios filled with propaganda, neighbors anxious and uncertain. As I grew into adolescence, I watched my friends become divided by fear and political slogans. My blindness, paradoxically, freed m...
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About Jacques Lusseyran
Jacques Lusseyran (1924–1971) was a French writer and member of the Resistance. Blinded in childhood, he founded a resistance group during World War II and survived deportation to Buchenwald. After the war, he taught literature and philosophy in France and the United States.
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