Wallenberg Lecture: Paul Rusesabagina

The Wallenberg Lectures are presented by persons who have been awarded the University of Michigan's Wallenberg Medal, which recognizes individuals whose life and work in defense of human rights and dignity honors and perpetuates Raoul Wallenberg's extraordinary accomplishments.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89917/1/rusesabagina.m4ahttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89917/2/rusesabagina.aiffhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89917/3/wallenberg-rusesabagina.mp4http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89917/5/2005-WML-Paul-Rusesabagina.dochttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89917/6/2005-WML-Paul-Rusesabagina-QA-Session.docDescription of rusesabagina.m4a : Lecture audioDescription of rusesabagina.aiff : Lecture audioDescription of wallenberg-rusesabagina.mp4 : Q&A sessionDescription of 2005-WML-Paul-Rusesabagina.doc : TranscriptDescription of 2005-WML-Paul-Rusesabagina-QA-Session.doc : Question and Answer Sessio

An Ordinary Man : An Autobiography

The life story of Paul Rusesabagina, the man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda. As his country was torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Rusesabagina--the Oskar Schindler of Africa --refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he offered shelter to more than 12,000 members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged outside. This book explores what the film could not: the inner life of the man who became the most prominent public face of that terrible conflict. Rusesabagina tells his full story--the son of a rural farmer, the child of a mixed marriage, the career path which led him to become the first Rwandan manager of the Belgian-owned hotel--all of which contributed to his heroic actions in the face of horror.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/english_books/1015/thumbnail.jp