Lecture: "Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust"
Lecture: "Surviving the Rwandan Holocaust"
"Surviving the Rwandan Genocide: Immaculée's Story of Faith, Hope and Forgiveness," Immaculée Ilibagiza, a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and author of Left to Tell: Discovering God amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. She and seven other women spent 91 days huddled together silently in the bathroom of a local pastor's house - a trauma from which she emerged half-starved and to find her entire family had been brutally murdered.
Immaculée used her time in hiding to teach herself English with only the Bible and a dictionary; once freed she was able to secure a job with the United Nations. In 1998, she immigrated to the United States, where she continued her work with the UN. Her story has been made into a documentary titled The Diary of Immaculée. She recently hosted a documentary titled Ready to Forgive, An African Story of Grace, broadcast on NBC and the Hallmark Channel. She also is the author of Led By Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide.
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