By: Eric Thomas and Kyle Burgess

Heroes of HistoryHero - A person who is admired for courage

or noble qualities.

RwandaApril 6th 1994 to July 17th 1994

Dallaire was the leader of UNAMIR

Dallaire’s mission: to supervise the Hutu and Tutsi while the Arusha Accord was put in place

Had a team of peacekeepers from Belgium, Canada, Ghana, Bangladesh, Tunisia, Senegal and Pakistan

Had to ask permission from the UN Security Council before doing anything

Romeo Dallaire:Situation

Defied the order to withdraw from Rwanda

Asked for more troops from the UN and other countries but was denied by everyone

Had over 20,000 Rwandans under his protection

Constantly made new plans to protect people

Romeo Dallaire:What did he do?

Testified against Col. Bagosora in his trial

A Senator in Canadian Parliament

Wrote two booksCurrently fighting the

use of child soldiersTrying to bring a general

understanding of PSTD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) to the general public

Romeo Dallaire:What is he doing now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjQxF2_GJew

Romeo Dallaire:Video

Senegalese Captain of the UN

Stationed at Hôtel des Mille Collines

Mbaye was described as “the bravest of the brave” and “the kind of guy you meet once in a lifetime”

UN’s presence was often enough to keep the killers away from the hotel when the genocide started

Mbaye Diagne:Situation

Saved the PM’s children by taking them to Hôtel des Mille Collines

Made numerous rescue missions

Hid Tutsi’s in the back of his truck and had a charm with the guards at the checkpoints to get passed

Saved 25 hidden Tutsis once by making several trips through 23 checkpoints from their hiding place to the hotel

Mbaye Diagne:What did he do?

Mbaye died on May 31st 1994

Driving back to UN headquarters with a message for Dallaire

A mortar shell landed behind his Jeep

Shrapnel came through the back window and into the back of his head

He was killed instantly

Mbaye Diagne:What is he doing now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgdU1B2bzxw

Mbaye Diagne:Video

He was HutuLast name means

‘warrior that disperses the enemies’

He was Assistant General Manager of Hôtel des Milles Collines

All the managers left when the genocide started and he was promoted to General Manager

He was married to a Tutsi

Paul Rusesabagina:Situation

Sheltered around 1200 refugees at his hotel

Would bribe militia captains with money, alcohol and cigars so they would leave

Had tight contacts with city heads

Saved his family and 32 neighbours

Constantly called and sent faxes to important heads such as Bill Clinton and the King of Belgium

Paul Rusesabagina:What did he do?

Hotel Rwanda was made about his story

Escaped to Tanzania (behind RPF lines)

Moved to BelgiumStarted his own cab

companyBought a trucking

company in Zambia and uses it to deliver goods to rural areas in Zambia

Gives lectures and does public speaking

Paul Rusesabagina:What is he doing now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LchWLP-XsVw

Paul Rusesabagina:Video

Head of ADRA (Adventist Development and Relief Agency International)

Lived in Rwanda with his wife and 3 kids

Only American left in Rwanda after the genocide started

Stayed in his home with his friends (mainly Tutsi’s)

Carl Wilkens:Situation

He is responsible for saving 400 people at the Gisimba orphanage

With 50 killers ready to kill, Wilkens went to the prime minister and was able to save the orphanage

He later transferred the 400 people to a safe Cathedral

From a different orphanage he transferred 100 people to the Cathedral

Brought 12 people from Nyamirambo to Mille Collines

Carl Wilkens:What did he do?

Jean-Francois Gisimba and Carl Wilkens

Went back to Rwanda to help rebuild

Became a pastorVisits Rwanda to see friends

and co-workersPublic SpeakingRuns a website about his

experiences Involved in helping the

victims of the genocide in Darfur

Wrote a book called “I’m not leaving”

Director of World Outside my Shoes

Carl Wilkens:What is he doing now?

www.worldoutsidemyshoes.org

http://www.ushmm.org/genocide/take_action/gallery/portrait/wilkens

Carl Wilkens:Video

The Holocaust

Owner of an enamelware and ammunitions factory in Kraków, Poland

His workers were 1,000 Jews from the Kraków Ghetto

Amon Göth was the commandant of Płaszów concentration camp and liquidated the Kraków Ghetto

Oskar Schindler:Situation

Treated all the Jews in his factory civilly

He paid off Göth and other leading Nazis to get his workers shipped to his factory from Płaszów everyday to work

He persuaded the SS to let him take his Jewish workers with him to Czechoslovakia to his new factory as his enamelware factory was shut down

If he hadn’t saved them, the Jews would have gone to Auschwitz

Oskar Schindler:What did he do?

Liam Neeson in Schindler’s List

Schindler fled to Austria and then emigrated to Argentina

He tried to start up several factories but they all failed

He died on October 8, 1974

He died penniless He was buried in Israel

“where his children are”

Oskar Schindler:What is he doing now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDumJVv6GP8

Oskar Schindler:Video

Was a businessman in Sweden

Was recruited by a program called the War Refugee Board (WRB)

Franklin D. Roosevelt sent Iver Olsen to Sweden to recruit Swedish Jews to carry out rescue missions

Their job was to rescue Hungarian Jews

Raoul Wallenberg:Situation

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Gave out fake papers and protective passports to Hungarian Jews so they wouldn’t be deported to Auschwitz

The protective passports said that the person was waiting to go to Sweden and they couldn’t be taken to Auschwitz

Passports weren’t legal but looked official

He climbed on top of a train headed for Auschwitz and started handing passports out through the doors

Raoul Wallenberg:What did he do?

Russians took control of Budapest

Wallenberg was arrested and disappeared

It was reported in 1947 that Wallenberg and his driver were killed by the Gestapo

In 2000 it was reported that Wallenberg was executed while in prison

Raoul Wallenberg:What is he doing now?

London

Israel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etptIcBbDgc&feature=related

Raoul Wallenberg:Video

WWI soldier on Germany’s side

Served in the Polish Army in 1927

He fled back to Stankiewicze when the Nazi’s invaded

His parents, two brothers and other family members were murdered by the Nazis

His brothers Zus and Asael fled with him into the Naliboków forest

Tuvia Bielski:Situation

Tuvia Asael Zus

Tuvia and his brothers met other Jews who had fled into the forest and made a Partisan group

He rescued Jews from ghettos

They waged many successful attacks against the Nazis

Saved over 100 Jews from the Iwie ghetto just before the Germans liquidated it

Built a functioning village in the forest

Tuvia Bielski:What did he do?

Daniel Craig in Defiance

Went to Israel after the war

Came to America in 1955 for medical treatment

Ended up staying in Brooklyn and running a trucking company with Zus

He died in 1987In 1988 he was re-

buried in JerusalemHe was give full Israeli

military honour guard

Tuvia Bielski:What is he doing now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNESa2qeS4g&feature=relmfu

Tuvia Bielski:Video