Escape from Rwanda: A True Story of Faith, Hope, and Survival

John Bizimana recounts his childhood in Rwanda and the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, which tore through his country and his family's world. He describes the fear of those months, the choices his family had to make to stay alive, and the flight that followed, when he became one of many people moving through unsettled borders in search of safety. The memoir traces the hardship of life as a refugee and the long road toward a new start far from home. Throughout, the author returns to the faith that carried him through the worst years and shaped how he understood what he had survived. It is a short, personal account of loss and endurance told in plain, direct prose.