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Legacy Chronicles— Episode 314
Host: Zachary Graulich
Guest: Consolee Nishimwe
Produced by: Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center / hmTv

In this deeply moving episode, Assistant Director of Education Zachary Graulich sits down with genocide survivor, author, and global human rights advocate Consolee Nishimwe. At just 14 years old during the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, Consolee endured unimaginable loss, violence, and betrayal. She survived thanks to the courage of neighbors who risked their lives to protect her and her family.

Consolee shares her childhood in Rwanda, the murder of her father and siblings, the terror of hiding, and the sexual violence she endured. Through profound resilience, her mother’s strength, and later the support of therapy and writing, she rebuilt her life. Her journey brought her to the United States, where she transformed grief into purpose and became a powerful voice for survivors and for human dignity around the world.

This conversation explores survival, healing, faith, identity, and the moral duty to bear witness. Consolee reminds us that storytelling is not only remembrance. It is resistance — and a call to honor the past while safeguarding the future.

A conversation that challenges, inspires, and reaffirms the strength of the human spirit.

For more on Consolee and her memoir Tested to the Limit, visit HMTC.org.

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