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This is the framework upon which Jacques Lusseyran’s story is built. After months in prison in Paris, they were deported to Bunchenwald concentration camp in Germany. In July 1943, they were betrayed by an informer within the group and arrested. They joined forces with a larger movement and together expanded their forces.

He lived in Paris when he was in his teens during the Nazi occupation, and at the age of 17 he became the primary leader of a Resistance movement of 600 young men and teenagers. Professor Lusseyran was born at a time when his life’s course would inevitably collide with World War II. He also described the colors he could see as different musical instruments were played in a concert. The many experiences he describes as a young boy growing into adolescence without sight, but with all his other senses on hyper alert was a revelation to him. He states that after it happened, he realized that everything has light within it, that everything is flooded with different colors, and that sounds, touch, colors, and light are all interchangeable and can fill in for each other at will.

One is that joy isn’t outside ourselves, but is to be found within and the other, that the light that is the essence of life is also within so it doesn’t need eyes to see it.Īt the age of 8, Jacques Lusseyran lost his sight due to an accident in school. His life and how he lived it is nothing if not an enigma – a beautiful mystery that he says comes down to two truths. I realize how ambiguous those sentences are next to each other, yet they also fully describe the life of Jacques Lusseyran. It is also one of the most inspiring and uplifting books I have ever read. One is that joy isn’t outside ourselves, but is to be found within and the other, that the light that is t This book is one of the most touching and heart wrenching I have ever read. This book is one of the most touching and heart wrenching I have ever read.

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experience is thrilling, horrible, honest, spiritually profound, and utterly full of joy.” “One of the most powerful memoirs I’ve ever encountered. * This fourth edition includes a new insert of photographs * Chosen as one of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century by a jury of writers including Harold Kushner, Thomas Moore, Huston Smith, and Natalie Goldberg His gripping story is one of the most powerful and insightful descriptions of living and thriving with blindness, or indeed any challenge, ever published. He was one of only thirty from the transport to survive. Eventually, Lusseyran was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in a transport of two thousand resistance fighters. Lusseyran formed a resistance group with fifty-two boys and used his heightened senses to recruit the best. In 1941, when he was seventeen, that world was Nazi-occupied France. He finished his schooling determined to participate in the world around him. Eventually, Lusseyran was When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident. When Jacques Lusseyran was an eight-year-old Parisian schoolboy, he was blinded in an accident.