David Gewirtzman and Jacqueline Murekatete tell stories about genocide to high-school students in New York, says Corey Kilgannon in the N.Y. Times (1/14/04). Gewirtzman, 75, survived the Holocaust by spending almost two years burrowed with eight family members under a pigsty on a Polish farm. Murekatete, 20, escaped being hacked to death by a rival tribe in Rwanda in 1994 when she was nine; her parents and six siblings did not. Now they travel together telling their stories. "We both went through a traumatic experience," Gewirtzman says, "but instead of remaining bitter and angry and seeking revenge, we both resolved to spend the anger in a positive manner, to prevent this from ever happening again."
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