And there was light : autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran blind hero of the French Resistance

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And there was light : autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran blind hero of the French Resistance

Author:

Lusseyran, Jacques.

Uniform Title:

Et la lumière fut. English

ISBN:

9780930407407

Edition:

2nd ed., rev.

Publication Information:

Sandpoint, ID : Morning Light Press, 2006.

Physical Description:

iv, 316 p. ; 21 cm.

Personal Subject:

Lusseyran, Jacques.

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Biography, French.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.

Prisoners of war -- France -- Biography.

Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.

Blind -- France -- Biography.

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This astonishing autobiography tells the gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran, an inspiring individual who overcame the limitations of physical blindness by attending -- literally -- to the light within his own mind. Through faith in the connection between vivid inner sight and outer events, he became a leader in the French Resistance and survived the horrors at Buchenwald.

Author Notes

Jacques Lusseyran was born in Paris, France on September 19, 1924. He became totally blind in a school accident at the age of 8. In the spring of 1941, at the age of 17, he formed a Resistance group called the Volunteers of Liberty with 52 other boys. The group later merged with another Resistance group called Défense de la France. On July 20, 1943, he was betrayed by a member of his resistance group and arrested by the Gestapo. He was sent to Buchenwald and was liberated in April 1945. After World War II, he became a professor of French literature at Case Western Reserve University. He wrote several books including Against the Pollution of the I: Selected Writings of Jacques Lusseyran and And There Was Light: The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II. He died in a car accident on July 27, 1971.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Library Journal Review

This is an exciting, inspirational account of a life without sight. Lusseyran, blinded at the age of eight by a freak accident, becomes a youth leader in the French Underground during World War II. While still in his teens, he is arrested and sent to Buchenwald, where he serves his fellow prisoners as translator and disseminator of information, never giving in to despair. His refusal to let blindness cripple him shines through his writing with an almost religious tone as he tells of the inner light that guides him. The audio format makes this autobiography especially compelling. Andre Gregory's matter-of-fact reading conveys the author's positive attitude despite blindness and Nazi atrocities. Accounts of uncommon courage are always important for the examples they set, and this one is no exception. Highly recommended for general collections.-- Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Geneseo (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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