unbelievable!
2007-04-17 08:37:26 · 12 answers · asked by TriSec 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Yes, an Israeli professor who survived the Holocaust and defended his students from the raging shooter by sacrificing him self.
He's a Hero in my book!!!
2007-04-17 09:00:01 · answer #1 · answered by Luv Thy Neighbour! 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For those who do not know the story.
Liviu Librescu a 75-year-old Israeli professor is one of the people who died in Monday's Virginia Tech shooting. The professor saved several students before got shot, witnesses said, quoted by DPA news agency.
Librescu was teaching his class in Norris Hall when the killer entered the building randomly unloading his gun in class rooms. The Mechanics and Aeronautics professor stayed behind to stop the shooter from opening the door. When the attacker finally got into the classroom, threw himself in front of the gunman, a student told Israel's Army Radio.
‘He himself was killed but thanks to him his students stayed alive’, the student who survived the massacre said.
Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, was born in Romania, he has Israeli nationality but had lived in the US with his wife for the past two decades while both his sons live in Israel.
Librescu and his wife moved to Israel from Romania in 1978 and then moved to Virginia in 1986 for his sabbatical but decided to stay, their son told Army Radio.
2007-04-17 10:19:56 · answer #2 · answered by charontheloose 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that Liviu Librescu will be remembered as a true hero-he saved countless lives in that classroom. I am truely sorry for his family's loss. Ut Prosim-he truely embodied the spirit of Tech and the community lost a great man.
2007-04-17 09:11:41 · answer #3 · answered by VAgirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During the March 12 1992 serial bomb blasts in Bombay, India, a man was at the Stock Exchange when the blast occurred. He telephoned his wife that he was safe. He then proceeded to the Air India Building, barely two kilometers away, where the next blast got him.
Tragic, but true.
2007-04-18 11:56:05 · answer #4 · answered by wisdom tooth 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I hadn't heard about that. If that's true, and I'm sure it must be, then may he rest in peace. One can only survive so many traumatic events like that. I know this may sound odd, but I bet he would rather be where he is now, then to have lived through the horrors of what happened.
2007-04-17 08:45:28 · answer #5 · answered by lady 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My husband had Dr. Lebrescu for class when he attended Tech. He said he could picture the professor blocking the door; he was a tough man. Maybe his past gave him the strength he showed yesterday.
2007-04-17 09:07:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That man must have remembered how it was when he was young and determined not to ever let it happen again. He gave his life, blocking the door so the students could get out. He deserves everyone's respect. He has mine and his family has my condolences.
2007-04-17 08:46:30 · answer #7 · answered by c.s. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just read that story and you read my mind. How awful to survive such a tragedy only to be followed up by this. Its just really really sad.
2007-04-17 08:46:21 · answer #8 · answered by one 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being exposed to one great tragedy does not grant you immunity from another. Terribly sad.
2007-04-17 08:41:40 · answer #9 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Chit happens, sad but true.
2007-04-17 12:29:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋