In 2012 she was the June 9 speaker for the Robert E. Ilibagiza speaks all over the world and is the recipient of the 2007 Mahatma Gandhi Reconciliation and Peace Award. In 2006, a documentary short about her story, The Diary of Immaculée, was released by Academy Award–nominated documentarians Peter LeDonne and Steve Kalafer. It is in this safe place where she has the potential to reflect on why she lived through the experience at all. She finally finds a safe refuge in the United States where she is able to look back at everything she had been through. It describes how her faith in God kept her going as she struggled to find her place in the world again, and it also shows how she sought out and encouraged many of the orphans who were equally lost. She tells her story of survival immediately following the genocide she had lived through. Ilibagiza's second book, Led by Faith: Rising from the ashes of the Rwandan Holocaust (2008), picks up where she left off in Left to Tell. Ilibagiza shares how her Catholic faith guided her through her ordeal and describes her eventual forgiveness and compassion toward her family's killers. Besides herself, the only other survivor in her family was her brother Aimable, who was studying out of the country in Senegal and did not know of the genocide. During the genocide, most of Ilibagiza's family (her mother, her father, and her two brothers Damascene and Vianney) was killed by Hutu Interahamwe soldiers. The bathroom was concealed in a room behind a wardrobe in the home of a Hutu pastor. She survived hidden for 91 days with seven other women in a small bathroom, no larger than 3 feet (0.91 m) by 4 feet (1.2 m) (an area of 12 square feet). In Left to Tell, Immaculée Ilibagiza shares of her experience during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. She was featured on one of Wayne Dyer's PBS programs, and also on a December 3, 2006, segment of 60 Minutes (which re-aired on July 1, 2007).

Her first book, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust (2006), is an autobiographical work detailing how she survived during the Rwandan genocide. Immaculée Ilibagiza (born 1972) is a Rwandan American author and motivational speaker. Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust

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