At the time of the 1994 Rwandan genocide , a resurgence of tribal violence that killed more than 800,000 people , Karuhimbi was an elderly widow . She helped Tutsis as well as Burundians and three Europeans to hide from roving Hutu militias . Karuhimbi hid the refugees inside her two-room house , and possibly in a hole in her fields . In all she saved more than 100 people , including babies that she rescued from the arms of their dead mothers
Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
Zura Karuhimbi