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Author: Jacques Lusseyran

📘 And there was light by Jacques Lusseyran

"Autobiography addressing the author's childhood experience of inner spiritual vision after becoming blind as a boy, his forming a boys' resistance group in occupied Paris at age seventeen (which later merged with Défense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"--

First publish date: 1963

Authors: Jacques Lusseyran

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