Jacques Lusseyran

French author, resistance fighter (1924-1971)

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Lived 1924–1971, aged 47France
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    1924–1971
    Aged 47
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Updated 2026-08-15

Jacques Lusseyran was a French author and political activist. Blinded at the age of 7, at 17 Lusseyran became a leader in the French Resistance against Nazi Germany's occupation of France in 1941. He was eventually sent to Buchenwald concentration camp because of his involvement, and was one of 990 of his group of 2000 inmates to survive. He wrote about his life, including his experience during the war, in his autobiography And There Was Light.

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