#ThrowbackThursday. Left to Tell

 

Ilibagiza, Immaculée with Erwin, Steve "Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust" - 2006

An earth-shattering tale as the author doesn't just tell how she survived (cramped with seven other women into a tiny bathroom for 91 days with hardly any food and having to be absolutely quiet the whole time, how they learned to communicate without speaking), she also tells about losing all her family and friends, hardly anyone she knew survived, most of them were killed most brutally.

Immaculée Ilibagiza has her own homepage, "Left to Tell". And she wrote another, more religious book: "Our Lady of Kibeho". The story happened before this one but was written later.

Ilibagiza, Immaculée with Erwin, Steve "Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa" - 2008

During the first book I was always amazed about her faith, her indistructible faith in God that he would spare her. She was born like that, her family was very religious and then she saw the visionaries.

Read my original reviews here and here.