Apr 17 2007
Jewish-Romanian Professor a Hero Amongst Va Tech Victims
CNN reported today one of the victims of yesterday’s Virginia Tech massacre was professor Liviu Librescu. Professor Librescu, a survivor of the Holocaust and professor of Engineering, blocked the door to his classroom in an attempt to allow his students to flee the shooter. He never made it out of that classroom alive. Ironically, April 16, 2007 was Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day).
The engineering department website was displaying an”In Memoriam” today.
The history of Romanian professors being murdered on the grounds of a US University is not new. In 1991, Romanian Historian of Religion Ioan P Culianu (desciple of Mircea Eliade) was shot dead in the University of Chicago Divinity School bathroom.
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