Librescu's son, Joe, said he had received e-mails from several students who said he had saved their lives and regarded him as a hero whilst many newspapers also reported him as the hero of the massacre.
One student, Asael Arad, said that all the professor's students "lived because of him." Another student, Caroline Merrey, said she and about 20 other students scrambled through the windows as Librescu shouted for them to hurry she said she felt sure his actions helped save lives. Of the 23 registered students, one, Minal Panchal, died.Ī number of Librescu's students have called him a hero because of his actions.
Librescu held the door of his classroom shut while Cho was attempting to enter it although he was shot through the door, he was able to prevent the gunman from entering the classroom until most of his students had escaped through the windows. On April 16, Seung-Hui Cho entered Norris Hall and opened fire on classrooms. During April 2007, Librescu taught a solid mechanics class in Room 204 in the Norris Hall Engineering Building. Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust and was repatriated to communist Romania where he became an accomplished scientist.Īt age 76, Librescu was among the thirty-two people who were murdered in the Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, 2007. Liviu as a boy was interned at a labor camp in Transnistria and later, along with his family and thousands of other Jews, was deported to a ghetto in the city of Focsani. After Romania allied with Nazi Germany in World War II, his father, Isidore Librescu, was deported by the Nazis. Liviu Librescu was born in 1930 to a Jewish family in the city of Ploiesti, Romania. One particular story struck the proverbial cord:
I became rather absorbed in the story, surfing the internet trying to find the most recent update on the murderer, the victims, the survivors. Like Rose, the author of another blogsite, I found myself crying after reading the story on the news section of my homepage. incident are ubiquitous, it never hurts to add one more voice to the crowd, especially if the incident is as devastating as this.īy now, everyone has probably heard of the mass-shooting in Blacksburg, Virginia, unless (of course) you live under a rock. Although blogs pertaining to the Virginia Tech.