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Jacques Lusseyran

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The Resume

    (September 19, 1924-July 27, 1971)
    Born in Paris, France
    Fought in the French Resistance during World War II
    Imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp
    Autobiography is ‘And There Was Light’ (1953)
    Other books include 'What One Sees Without Eyes,' 'Against the Pollution of the I,' and 'Conversation amoureuse'

Why he might be annoying:

    He claimed to be able to decipher ‘moral music.’
    He wrote: ‘Life did not fall on my face as cool as rain or into my hands as round as fruit, but was a wave rising inside me.’
    Several sources list him as the recipient of the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre by the French government, but official records or dates aren’t listed for either citation.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was blinded in a childhood accident at the age of eight.
    He taught himself German when Hitler came to power so that he could interpret Hitler’s broadcasts for himself.
    He joined the Resistance at the age of 17, and was in charge of recruitment.
    His blindness and perceptive listening made him able to identify deceit or sincerity in a potential recruit’s tone of voice.
    When the Nazis arrested him, he was sent with 2,000 other prisoners on a transport to Buchenwald (at the time of liberation, he among only 31 of the original transport to have survived).
    While in the camp, he translated and deciphered war updates for his fellow prisoners.
    He later moved to the United States, where taught French at Hollis University in Virginia and later the University of Hawaii.
    He died with his third wife Marie in a car accident in France.

Credit: BoyWithTheGreenHair


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