"Autobiography addressing the author's childhood experience of inner spiritual vision after becoming blind as a boy, his forming a boys' resistance group in occupied Paris at age seventeen (which later merged with Défense de la France), and his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp"-- Provided by publisher.

Translation of: Et la lumière fut. 2015-06

Clear water of childhood -- Revelation of light -- The cure for blindness -- Running mates and teachers -- My friend Jean -- The visual blind -- The troubled earth -- My country, my war -- The faceless disaster -- The plunge into courage -- The brotherhood of resistance -- Our own defense of France -- Betrayal and arrest -- The road to Buchenwald -- The living and the dead -- My new world.