Professor Liviu Librescu

Professor Liviu Librescu.

The e-mails from grateful students arrived soon after Liviu Librescu was shot to death, telling how the Holocaust survivor barricaded the doorway of his Virginia Tech classroom and saved their lives.

"My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Librescu's son, Joe Librescu, said in a telephone interview from his home outside Tel Aviv.

Professor Liviu Librescu was murdered on Holocaust Memorial Day -- Yom HaShoah.

Asael Ara, a student at VTech, met with Librescu's family and friends.
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FOX News


Arieh Librescu, son of murdered professor.


Joseph Librescu, son of murdered VT engineering professor Liviu Librescu
, on the phone from Tel Aviv, Israel.
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FOX & Friends
FOX News
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Holocaust Survivor, Professor Killed Helping Students Escape
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,266506,00.html


Professor who saved his students laid to rest in Israel.
Marlena Librescu, widow of VA Tech prof.
Reena Ninan, Jerusalem, Israel


Dennis Miller
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Prof Liviu Librescu, a senior researcher and lecturer at Virginia Tech, is among the 32 people who were killed during a shooting rampage at the university Monday.

"He has been teaching there for 20 years, and was a senior, world-renowned lecturer. He is the professor with the highest number of publications in the history of Virginia Tech. In the past, he taught at Tel Aviv University and the Technion."

Prof Librescu and his wife are both Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1978.

Librescu was an accomplished scientist in Romania, and the Communist regime had tried to prevent him from making aliyah to Israel. He was allowed to leave the country only after the Israeli prime minister at the time Menachem Begin appealed the matter to President Nicolae Ceausescu.

www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3388753,00.html




'This Holocaust survivor gave his own life so that others may live,' US president says during Shoah memorial service in Washington.


US President George W. Bush on Wednesday honored Professor Liviu Librescu, an Israeli Holocaust survivor who died trying to keep a gunman from shooting his students in a killing spree at Virginia Tech University.


Librescu, an aeronautics engineer and teacher at the school for 20 years, saved the lives of several students by using his body to barricade a classroom door before he was gunned down in Monday's massacre.

www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3389555,00.html




Professor Liviu Librescu, who was murdered in the Virginia Tech shooting this week, was buried Friday morning at the Ra'anana cemetery.

Hundreds of mourners accompanied Librescu to his final resting place.

Among those who came to pay their respects was the head of Jewish Agency Zeev Bielski who was also the former Mayor of Ra'anana, the Romanian consulate general, friends, relatives and media from all over the world.

Gheorghe Angelescu, adviser to the president of Romania, presented Marlena Librescu with the Star of Romania - the country's highest civilian honor, which was previously granted to the prime ministers of France and Italy.

www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3390258,00.html




The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority

http://www.yadvashem.org/


About the Holocaust (in Persian)
http://www1.yadvashem.org/parsit_web/paras_home.html?WT.mc_id=parsit_web

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