Defying Genocide

Defying Genocide

written by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2014),
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Abstract / Summary
This film focuses on Damas Gisimba, director of a small orphanage in Rwanda that was besieged by militias during the 1994 genocide. Learn how Gisimba, with the help of American aid worker Carl Wilkens, managed to protect, care for, and save some 400 people.
Field of Interest
Global Issues
Corporate Author
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Content Type
Government/institutional document
Format
Related Web resources
URL
http://www.ushmm.org/confront-genocide/cases/rwanda/rwanda-video-gallery/defying-genocide
Publication Year
2014
Subject
Global Issues, Social Sciences, Individual and Groups Rights, Rwanda, Tutsi Genocide (1994), Genocide, Oral history, Rwandan Civil War and Genocide, April 7–July 15, 1994, Post Genocide Rwanda, 1994-, History, The Arts, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Ruanda, Rwanda, Rwandans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
Keywords and Translated Subjects
Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Ruanda

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