Israeli Hero At VA Tech

Professor Livui Librescu

Yid With A Lid reports:

Professor Livui Librescu is a seventy-five year old survivor of the Shoah moved to Israel 30 years ago, and had taken up the position in Virginia in 1986. Librescu's wife, Marlena, told the NRG Web site that her husband had loved his job with "all his heart and his soul."

He was teaching an engineering class on Yom HaShoah when the shooting spree began. When the crazed killer tried to enter his classroom the Professor threw himself between the shooter and the class, keeping him out of the room. and screamed for the students to get out.

And in an interview with Israeli Army Radio, one of Librescu's students, Asael Arad, said: "All the students lived - because of him."

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