I’m sure there will be more stories like this coming out, but this morning, Fox News tells the story of a hero at Virginia Tech:
JERUSALEM - An Israeli lecturer who died in the massacre at a U.S. university saved the lives of several students by blocking the doorway of his classroom from the approaching gunman before he was fatally shot, his son said Tuesday.
Students of Liviu Librescu, 76, a holocaust survivor who was an engineering science and mathematics lecturer at Virginia Tech for 20 years, sent e-mails to his wife, Marlena, telling of how he blocked the gunman’s way and saved their lives, said the son, Joe.
“My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee,” Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview from his home outside of Tel Aviv. “Students started opening windows and jumping out.”
Ironically, yesterday was also Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.
H/T: Mason Conservative
Tags: Virginia Tech
April 18th, 2007 at 2:30 am
strange fact…here …in romania…the papers pretend he was romanian…liviu librescu sounds very romanian…
i think that it doesn’t matter what origin he had…i really believe that he was a true hero…
April 20th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
[...] wrote Tuesday about Liviu Librescu, the professor and Holocaust survivor who died trying to save his students. [...]