And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran
And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran
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And There Was Light
The Extraordinary Memoir of a Blind Hero of the French Resistance in World War II

Author: Jacques Lusseyran

Narrator: Andre Gregory

Unabridged: 4 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/01/2014

Synopsis

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. (This digital audiobook was created from the only remaining analog source and contains a slight tape hiss.)

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jaline on October 07, 2017

This book is one of the most touching and heart wrenching I have ever read. It is also one of the most inspiring and uplifting books I have ever read. I realize how ambiguous those sentences are next to each other, yet they also fully describe the life of Jacques Lusseyran. His life and how he lived......more

Goodreads review by Tim on October 17, 2017

Amazing book by an amazing man. Jacques Lusseyran went blind as a young boy after a seemingly innocuous accident at school. I’ve never before read the memoir of a blind person and his account of how he adapted to his new world and what it entailed was a deeply fascinating education. Even had the Naz......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn on December 16, 2008

An astonishing book. I was so moved by this man's life that I researched until I found someone who knew him to ask what it was like to be around him. I was told that when one met Jacques Lusseyran they felt they were being fully seen...for the first time...maybe the only time in their life.......more

Goodreads review by Betsy on September 23, 2017

One of the best books I've ever read. 9/22/17 Update, many years after reading this book. It suddenly seems to me time to remind people about this extraordinary autobiography of an extraordinary man, Jacques Lusseyran, who became a hero of the French Resistance during WWII. He was completely blind fro......more

Goodreads review by Irena on August 13, 2023

Jacques Lusseyran lost sight in an accident at the age of eight. Due to his parents efforts, he continued, as much as possible, to live normal life (regular school, playgrounds etc.) and for the most part avoided being bitter about his fate and feeling sorry for himself. Another major factor in his h......more

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