Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance and survive the Nazis Buchenwald concentration camp.
In Poetry in Buchenwald, he describes the unexpected nourishment he and his fellow prisoners.
In this remarkable collection of essays, Lusseyran writes of how Blindness enabled him to discover aspects of the world that he would not otherwise have known.
He wrote about these experiences in his inspiring memoir, And There Was Light .
Despite being blinded as a child, Jacques Lusseyran went on to help form a key unit of the French Resistance and survive the Nazis Buchenwald concentration camp