Hero
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.”
April 17th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Just a man. An ancient race.
April 17th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
“Liviu Librescu, 76, a holocaust survivor”, says it all doesn’t it?
April 18th, 2007 at 1:43 am
There are men, and then there are men.