Defying Genocide
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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
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- 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