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An updated edition of this classic World War II memoir, chosen as
one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century, with
a new photo insert and restored passages from the original French
edition
When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he
was blinded in an accident. He finished his schooling determined to
participate in the world around him. In 1941, when he was
seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. Lusseyran formed a
resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses
to recruit the best. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to
the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand
resistance fighters. He was one of only thirty from the transport
to survive. His gripping story is one of the most powerful and
insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or
indeed any challenge, ever published.
'Light is in us even if we have no eyes.' It is a rare man who can
maintain a love of life through the infirmity of blindness, the
terrors of war, and the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. Such
a man was Jacques Lusseyran, a French underground resistance leader
during the Second World War. This book is his compelling and moving
autobiography. Jacques Lusseyran lost his sight in an accident when
he was eight years old. At the age of sixteen, he formed a
resistance group with his schoolfriends in Nazi-occupied France.
Gradually the small resistance circle of boys widened, cell by
cell. In a fascinating scene, the author tells of interviewing
prospective underground recruits, 'seeing' them by means of their
voices, and in this way weeding out early the weak and the
traitorous. Eventually Jacques and his comrades were betrayed to
the Germans and interrogated by the Gestapo. After a fifteen month
incarceration in Buchenwald, the author was one of thirty to
survive from an initial shipment of two thousand.
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