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Companion reads to Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
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items These books deepen themes of faith, survival, and reconciliation raised in Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust. Each title offers a distinct lens on genocide, trauma, and forgiveness, from Rwanda to the Holocaust and beyond.
This memoir by Immaculée Ilibagiza recounts her survival of the 1994 Rwandan genocide while hiding in a 3-by-4-foot bathroom for 91 days, during which most of her family was murdered. It is ideal for readers seeking a powerful testimony of faith, pra...
Left to Tell: Discovering God in Rwanda
Immaculée Ilibagiza's follow-up to Left to Tell chronicles her struggle to rebuild life after the genocide, from navigating dangers in postwar Rwanda to starting over in the United States. It is suited to readers who want to see how deep faith and fo...
Led by Faith: Rising from Rwandan Genocide
In this book, Immaculée Ilibagiza tells the story of the Marian apparitions at Kibeho, Rwanda, where the Virgin Mary and Jesus appeared to young visionaries in the 1980s and warned of coming bloodshed if people did not repent. It is especially fittin...
Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks from Africa
Journalist Jean Hatzfeld presents oral testimonies from 14 survivors in the Bugesera region, one of the most devastated areas during the 1994 genocide, where an estimated five out of six Tutsis were killed by neighbors and militias. This book is idea...
Life Laid Bare The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
Catherine Claire Larson explores how Rwandan survivors and perpetrators pursue reconciliation after nearly a million people were killed in roughly one hundred days, tracing intersecting stories of widows, orphans, and former killers. It is aimed at r...
As We Forgive: Stories of Reconciliation Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch's acclaimed nonfiction work investigates the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and its aftermath, combining survivor accounts, political analysis, and reporting on how a society copes when around 800,000 people are killed in 100 days....
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed
Clemantine Wamariya, who fled Rwanda as a six-year-old and spent years moving through refugee camps in multiple African countries, recounts her journey and later life in the United States in this candid memoir. It suits readers interested in how chil...
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and ...
In this companion to Life Laid Bare, Jean Hatzfeld interviews a group of Hutu men who carried out mass killings during the genocide, allowing perpetrators to describe how they came to participate in organized slaughter of their neighbors. It is recom...
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
Canadian Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, former UN force commander in Rwanda, recounts how peacekeepers watched the genocide unfold with inadequate mandates and support, chronicling both atrocities and international inaction. This book is suited t...
Shake Hands with the Devil by Roméo Dallaire
This definitive mass market edition of Anne Frank's diary presents her unabridged reflections while hiding from Nazi persecution in Amsterdam, offering one of the most widely known personal accounts of the Holocaust. It is ideal for readers who want ...
THE DEFINITIVE EDITION Anne Frank Edited by Otto