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Uploaded by on Jan 11, 2008

Whenever genocide has occurred, individuals have risked their own lives to save others. How can their courage inspire us to defy genocide?

The story of how Simone Weil Lipman was able to save thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust is a starting point for an exploration of what it takes to defy genocide. 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.

Learn more about Damas Gisimba and the Rwandan genocide at http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/analysis/details.php?content=2007-01-05&m...

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  • hey, i was there!!! i was 8 years old. they saved my life. i can't find something to say about them. they are true heroes

  • @jkwihangana Thanks for your comment. Do you know of the project, Voices of Rwanda? Google it to find their site; they collect testimonies from the survivors of the 1994 genocide.

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  • Bless his heart

  • Great video about the true good guys and devils of modern days

  • Thank you for being humane, kind & merciful Mr Wilkins.

  • Why has no one made a movie about Captain Mbaye Diagne???

  • left to tell is a wonderful book telling the story of a tutsi who stayed with 7 woman in a single bathroom for months

  • Do Countries have the responsability to help other countries that suffer from genocide?

  • You´re so right my friend. There wa some true heroes during this horrible era of madness. For example UN Captain Mbaye Diagne who in the end payed with his life trying to save people. But we are some people who won´t forget neither what happened nor the people who stood up for huminatity, Our duty is to try to tell the rest.

  • Why does the world not know of these two men? I have only heard of Carl Wilkens from the Fronlines documentary, "Ghosts of Rwanda." It seems that the world now knows of Paul Rusesabagina, but what about these men who quietly saved hendreds, perhaps thousands. It truly is a tradegy that every person on the planet does not know these individual stories.

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