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* French author Jacques Lusseyran, who was visually impaired at the age of 7 when he injured his eyes on the sharp corner of a teacher's desk, became part of the French resistance during World War II.

He spent a year in concentration camps, surviving the experience and writing several books.

" And There Was Light " chronicles his experiences from early childhood until his liberation from a concentration camp.