'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.

And There Was Light: The Autobiography of a Blind Hero in the French Resistance

LUSSEYRAN, Jacques

Travel

Floris Books

Against the Pollution of the I

Religion & Spirituality

Myrin Inst

In the first twenty years of hs life Jacques Lusseyran was faced with two of the darkest of all human fates: he was physically blinded at the age of eight and ten years later suffered ll the worst horrors of human evil in a Nazi concentration camp. From each of these experiences was born an intensity of light and joy that took him beyond the darkness while never rejecting the outer facts. We who have eyes and yet are blind in so many other ways may read and rejoice in his vision. - Helen M. Luke

And There Was Light

Biographies & Memoirs

Cameron, Elizabeth R. [Translator]

Leaders & Notable People

Parabola Books

Selected as one of USA Today’s 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century, 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.

And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran: Blind Hero of the French Resistance

Morning Light Press

Six little-known essays by the blind French author and Resistance leader Jacques Lusseyran, gathered together for the first time in English. Four of the six essays are based on Lusseyran’s experiences both during and after university life as a professor of literature and philosophy in Europe and in the United States.

Against the Pollution of the I: Selected Writings of Jacques Lusseyran

"The nature of love between a man and a woman.Jacques Lusseyran was a lover of love. Thanks to him we learn not to confuse it with the beloved person, nor with happiness. If we do not begin to love love, we risk losing it; that's why it is urgent to try to know it right into its most carnal forms. Already it forsakes us in pushing us toward two extremes: a never attained ideal or pornography. The modern man and woman are responsible for its future; they have to help it be born to itself. It is an urgent and difficult task because, let's not hide it, love is threatened.Conversation Amoureuse may well prove to be among this century's most consequential writing concerning the mysteries of love. For here, we have something entirely new, something completely unspoken before.... These days, with the men's movement and the upsurge of feminism, it is altogether too easy to forget that it is really possible, and actually a necessity for the sexes to come to deeper understandings of love by deeply listening to each other." (Robert Sardello)

Conversation Amoureuse

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Rudolf Steiner College

This inspiring title new to paperback presents six little-known essays by the blind French author and Resistance leader Jacques Lusseyran. Two of the essays delve more deeply into the human drama and heroism of his interment in a Nazi prison camp at Buchenwald, which Lusseyran described so movingly in his autobiography And There Was Light. Others explore the mystery and wonder of the world that his remarkable inner vision revealed and offer a comparison of sight both with and without eyes. Imagine experiencing senses far beyond the usual five — true and vivid sight without eyes, sound from trees, pressure from inanimate objects. Imagine reading the words of a man whom many consider a modern day saint. Against the Pollution of the I possesses the ingredients that make for success: the heroism of World War II, clear-sighted hope, and a full-hearted love of life. Blindness, for Lusseyran, invited him to pay more attention, enabling him to discover the divinity of the world available to all people. And in this remarkable collection of essays, Lusseyran offers us a way to access our precious light-filled inner self — our I — and transform our lives!

Morning Light Pr

The book that helped inspire Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See 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.

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

Historical

New World Library

Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance and survive the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp. He wrote about these experiences in his inspiring memoir, And There Was Light. In this remarkable collection of essays, Lusseyran writes of how blindness enabled him to discover aspects of the world that he would not otherwise have known. In Poetry in Buchenwald,” he describes the unexpected nourishment he and his fellow prisoners found in poetry. In What One Sees Without Eyes” he describes a divine inner light available to all. Just as Lusseyran transcended his most difficult experiences, his writings give triumphant voice to the human ability to see beyond sight and act with unexpected heroism.

Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness

Community & Culture

En 1940, la France capitule. En 1941, Jacques Lusseyran, alors qu'il est aveugle et n'a pas dix-huit ans, entre en résistance en rejoignant le mouvement Défense de la France. Le 20 juillet 1943, il est arrêté par la Gestapo, interrogé pendant des jours interminables et enfermé à Fresnes. Il sera déporté en 1944 à Buchenwald. Comment un aveugle peut-il survivre à cet enfer ? Grâce à la protection d'un groupe de Russes et à sa connaissance de l'allemand qui lui permettra d'informer les autres déportés des agissements des S.S. Après un an et demi d'horreur, il est libéré et revient en France où il poursuivra ses études en affirmant ses aspirations littéraires balayées par la guerre. Cette autobiographie est un exceptionnel exemple d'amour de la vie, de courage et de liberté intérieure face à l'adversité.

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And There Was Light: The Autobiography of a Blind Hero in the French Resistance

Against the Pollution of the I

And There Was Light

And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran: Blind Hero of the French Resistance

Against the Pollution of the I: Selected Writings of Jacques Lusseyran

Conversation Amoureuse

Against the Pollution of the I

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

Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness

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