Posted on 04/17/2007 7:03:09 AM PDT by meg88
Israeli professor murdered as he saved students at Vriginia Tech shootings Source: Jerusalem Post
As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 75-year-old survivor sacrificed his life to save his students in Monday’s shooting at Virginia Tech college that left 32 dead and over two dozen wounded.
Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, threw himself in front of the shooter, who had attempted to enter his classroom. The Israeli mechanics and engineering lecturer was shot to death, "but all the students lived - because of him," Virginia Tech student Asael Arad - also an Israeli - told Army Radio.
Several of Librescu’s other students 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."
Liviu Librescu, was respected in his field, his son said.
"His work was his life in a sense," said Joe. "That was a good place for him to practice his research."
The couple immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1978 and then moved to Virginia in 1986 for his sabbatical, but had stayed since then, Joe told Army Radio.
This is the first story of the whole affair that has brought tears to my eyes.
I'd have been honored to have dinner with him. I'd skip one with you.
“Never again.”
He saved the life of every student in his classroom. Is that "nothing" to you?
"just as Jews saved nothing in WWII."
There were countless heroic acts by Jews in WW2. ....and throughout history.
Gotta problem with Jews there, boy?
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I am close to tears. Great man who will be honored for what he did.
A true hero indeed..May God be with his loved ones..Such a loss.We have lost a great man.
Hero.
FYI, this is in the context of Islamist extremist.....
My apologies.
Who ARE you? Are you even human???
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God; whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
—Job 19:25-27
Hope you get well soon. You must be miserable.
He is a hero.
The post was very confusing, IMO, and perhaps should be removed to prevent distraction from the purpose of this thread.
Just my thoughts.....
Yes, it is a tragedy and my condolences go out to the families and friends of the victims.
But are we certain just yet that it is the work of just one maniac? Or is it still possible that he had help in this thing or that the motivation might have been political?
BTTT
In Yiddish (from which the word has migrated into American English), mensch roughly means "a good person." A role model. A "mensch" is a particularly good person, like "a stand-up guy," a person with the qualities one would hope for in a dear friend or trusted colleague. According to author and Yiddish popularist Leo Rosten
[A] mensch is a someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being "a real mensch" is nothing less than character, rectitude, dignity, a sense of what is right, responsible, decorous. (Rosten, Leo. 1968. The Joys of Yiddish. New York: Pocket Books. 237)
The correct German spelling is Mensch (singular, meaning non-judgmental human or man), Menschen (for the plural and for the singular accusative) and Menschlichkeit ("humanity").
In Modern Israeli Hebrew, the phrase Ben Adam is used as an exact translation of Mensch. Though it literally means "Son of Adam'" the phrase is used for both men and women. Depending on the context, it means either a "person" in general, or specifically a Mensch.
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