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Jacques Lusseyran
1924–1971
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- autobiographer
Jacques Lusseyran (19 September 1924 â 27 July 1971) was a French author and political activist.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Buchenwald concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Jacques Lusseyran (19 September 1924 â 27 July 1971) 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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