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Publicado por La bloguera en Mayo 2, 2007 04:24 PM
La peor masacre escolar en la historia de Estados Unidos, que dejó un saldo de 33 muertos en la Universidad de Virginia Tech, ha generado más interrogantes que respuestas, y mientras la nación está de luto muchos se preguntan cómo afectará ésta tragedia la imagen del inmigrante en este paÃs.
La prensa repite constantemente que el asesino, Cho Seung-Hui, emigró de Corea a los 8 años.
Antes de sus escalofriantes actos, la historia del joven es similar a la de muchas familias inmigrantes.
Sus padres que emigraron buscando un futuro mejor, durante años trabajaron en una lavanderÃa, y seguramente estaban orgullosos que sus hijos fueran a la universidad.
Inicialmente, Cho Seung-Hui, fue blanco de las burlas por no saber inglés, pero eventualmente aprendió el idioma, y se podrÃa decir que incluso absorbió los aspectos más violentos de esta sociedad, donde los tiroteos en las escuelas parecen repetirse sin sentido.
Ahora sus padres viven "una horrible pesadilla" según un comunicado de la familia que agrega que nunca se imaginaron la capacidad de violencia de su hijo quien "ha puesto a llorar al mundo".
Pero esta masacre también tiene otra cara inmigrante que no ha recibido tanta atención de los medios.
Las vÃctimas, los héroes y los dolientes de esta tragedia, también tienen rostro inmigrante y desde Perú, Puerto Rico, Indonesia, India, LÃbano, Polonia, Vietnam, Canadá y los Emiratos Arabes Unidos, llegaron para cumplir su sueño americano estudiando o enseñando en Virginia Tech.
El profesor Liviu Librescu, nacido en Polonia, se interpuso ante las balas tratando de salvar la vida de sus estudiantes. El maestro bloqueó la puerta del salón, mientras le urgÃa a sus estudiantes que se tiraran al piso.
El estudiante peruano, Daniel Pérez Cueva de 21 años, también murió en el tiroteo.
Su madre Betty Cueva lo recuerda como un joven alegre, que sin embargo asumió grandes responsabilidades familiares tras la deportación de su padre a Perú y se pagaba sus estudios para no incomodar a su familia.
Juan Ramón Ortiz de Puerto Rico, también fue vÃctima de la masacre.
Su padre, al ser entrevistado desde Puerto Rico, dio un ejemplo de compasión al mundo, al decir entre lágrimas, que también habÃa que orar por la familia del asesino.
Al igual que ese fatÃdico 11 de septiembre, con la masacre en Virginia Tech, los inmigrantes sufren en carne propia las tragedias nacionales, pero a la vez son una parte integral y necesaria para cicatrizar estas heridas y luchar por un mejor paÃs.
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On the morning of April 16, Dr. Liviu Librescu, a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor and aeronautical engineering professor, blocked the door of his classroom in Norris Hall at Virginia Tech so that his students could escape through the windows.
One month later, on the shloshim of his death, the University of Washington Chabad brought Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe to the UW campus for a memorial lecture in Librescu's honor that looked at, among other things, how his actions should be viewed through a Jewish lens.
Shlomo Yaffe serves as rabbi at Congregation Agudas Achim in West Hartford, Conn. and the founding director of the Institute for Jewish Literacy and the founder of the Connecticut Symposium on Contemporary Legal Issues and Jewish Law in Hartford. He is well known for his ability to make Jewish mysticism accessible to people to make use of it in daily life.
After studying rocket science and WWII history, Yaffe turned to Talmudic law and Hassidic philosophy. He has written and lectured on the Judaic perspective of contemporary, legal, scientific and social issues. Rabbi Yaffe is also an expert on secular law and legal ethics who serves as a legal consultant and lecturer for the New York Legal Assistance Group.
Rabbi Yaffe began his talk with the question: "From the standpoint of Jewish ethics and law, did [Prof. Librescu] do the right thing? He put himself against the door, which someone could, and did ultimately, shoot through and kill him. Was he really supposed to give his life for others?
"This is not such a simple question," Yaffe explained, "because if someone's life is no less valuable than your own, then it's certainly no more valuable than your own."
He promised to answer that question, but first
took an hour-long digression that began with the question of how German society, with its long traditions of scientific and philosophical leadership, could emerge in the 1930s as the author of the Holocaust, one of the most horrific moments in modern human history.
"How did a very large group of people from a highly developed society...engage in and justify such a pervasive, long term abuse of ethics? The Holocaust was not the passionate, vicious bloodletting of the mob that ultimately runs itself out," he said. "It was a cold and calculated societal choice devoted to the extermination, destruction and utter and complete cruelty and disregard, first of all to Jews, but also many others."
His answer was that the people making those choices believed that they had evidence that the Jews, the Gypsies, the handicapped, homosexuals and other outcast groups were a blight on the society and, that by removing them, they were improving the world as a whole. Then, like the teacher that he is, he led the dozen or so people that had come to hear him on a journey of exploration into the essential question of what makes a human life inherently worth preserving.
"There's this premise that we have that people have a fundamental right to live, that people have a fundamental right to express themselves, that people have a fundamental right to equal opportunities," he said. "The question is: is there really any quantifiable truth to them — can they be proved logically, or should we say scientifically?
"Scientifically, differences between human beings on a racial or national level are far less than their similarities. But that doesn't mean anything because someone else might have a different way of looking at things and, like the German scientists of the '20s and '30s, come to the conclusion that the shapes of skulls and the colors of skin and the like may be terribly important," Yaffe said. "And who's to say that it couldn't happen again?"
Once an idea becomes entrenched in the scientific or popular beliefs, he explained, the data tend to be read in a way that support that belief.
Making a case analogous to the anti-Semitism of Nazi Germany, he said, "I could identify any one of five racial groups that have a much higher rate of indictment, convictions and incarcerations for murder. There are certain minorities that commit crimes and get convicted for them at a much higher rate than other minorities. It probably has nothing to do with race and a lot to do with history....These statistics do exist.
"Put yourself in the shoes of these German scientists," Yaffe said. "Once you believe that this group contains a greater percentage of social pathologies and that once you get rid of them you get rid of the social pathologies ... I ask all of you, is there any reason why we should not exterminate this group?"
His comments counter the ethical calculus in Jewish tradition that the fundamental belief that human beings are made in the image of God and, as such, each and every one of us is imbued with an inherent value that cannot be reduced by the "greater good" for society as a whole.
"We can argue from today to tomorrow about God and religion and everything, but if you do not bring in a being that is the source of everything whose purest expression is in a human being, a being that assigns a special value to the human being, a being that says its most profound and indivisible irreducible expression is in a human being, then you can never, ever find a reason why I should not do something wrong to another person," Rabbi Yaffe said.
"The only thing that would seem to guarantee such a thing is that there is a sensibility that assigns an absolute value as part of itself to the human being. That value says there's nothing more precious than a human life, so I need to do everything I can to protect it and preserve it unless that other person forfeits its life by seeking my destruction."
Under that precept, he said, one person cannot, under Jewish law, sacrifice his own life for another person's, no matter how much better or more deserving they believe that other person to be.
"On the other hand," he said, drawing back to where he began, with the sacrifice made by Prof. Librescu, "can someone risk [his] life to save someone else's life? Yes, as long as it's not a definite one-on-one sort of thing. Can someone risk [his] life to save many? It would seem the answer is yes — that answers the original question that we started with."
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<p>Lessons learned on the 8th anniversary of Columbine.
<i>-- Diane Edbril and Daniel Loeb</i>
Yet another American gun massacre, and though the scale is more horrific, it is not surprising. The Virginia Tech massacre is not unlike the Amish schoolhouse shooting in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, late last year. Both of these, while unbearably sad, are hardly unexpected in this country. Our weak gun laws make it a certainty that the United States will continue to suffer recurrences of such preventable tragedies. There is a crying need for Americans to understand - It's about the guns!
Phil Goldsmith, President of CeaseFire PA, said "Since the Columbine shooting tragedy it has become even easier to obtain guns, as well as high capacity ammunition magazines. Many states, including Pennsylvania, have passed pre-emption laws that have undermined the ability of local governments to enact stricter gun laws. (Pennsylvania has preempted local regulation of firearms for over a decade.) Concealed carry laws have multiplied. In addition, for the last six years, the US Department of Justice has required the destruction of gun purchase background check records after just 24 hours, a measure that has prevented a comprehensive review of those who may have acquired guns despite falling into a prohibited category."
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<p><ul id="obj"><li>Most of our states do not require gun owners to be licensed and for guns to be registered.</li><li>Most of our states have not closed the gun show loophole, so thousands of guns are purchased without background checks.</li><li>Most states impose no limits on the number of firearms one individual can acquire, making it easy for illegal gun traffickers to supply the criminal element.</li><li>Many of our states do not update criminal history databases in a timely manner, making it easy for criminals to obtain firearms.</li></ul></p><p>Imagine how much worse this tragedy could have been if Cho Seung-hui had been in possession of a military assault weapon as is his "right" now that Congress has allowed the Assault Weapons Ban to expire.
Cho Seung-hui was able to obtain firearms despite his psychological record since the burden of proof is on the government to prove that he was a danger to himself and those around him. However, when I get a driver's license, the burden of proof is on me to prove that my eyesight is adequate and that I understand the rules of the road. When I send my children to school or to summer camp, the burden of proof is on me to show that my children have been immunized and are not carrying any communicable diseases. Why not shift the burden of proof and require a recent attestation of sanity from a psychiatrist or psychologist before anyone can handle a firearm?
Will the American people stand up to the gun lobby and demand change, or will the administration simply blame the media for not concentrating their coverage on the majority of universities which do not have gun violence at any given moment?
As Phil Goldsmith observed: "Congress called for a Moment of Silence in response to this massacre. Indeed, a moment of silence is appropriate for such a devastating tragedy with such pain for families and students. But we also need loud, uncompromising noise, particularly in Pennsylvania, where too many of our citizens are being shot and killed in urban areas. The majority of Pennsylvanians favor sensible handgun laws, including Governor Ed Rendell. It is time for the majority's voices to be heard loud and clear."
<i>For information about the Stop Gun Violence Through Peace, Action & Education - A Community-Based Interfaith's Conference on May 20 and the weekly vigils. See last month's article on <a href="http://www.pjvoice.com/v22/22007guns.aspx">Interfaith Initiative Against Guns</a>.</i>
<b>Liviu Librescu Links:</b></p>
<p><ul id="obj"><li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/virginiatech.shootings/victims/profiles/liviu.librescu.html">CNN Tribute Page</a></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviu_Librescu">Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href="http://www.esm.vt.edu/~llibresc/RESUME%20L.%20Librescu.pdf">61 page resume</a></li><li><a href="http://www.chabad.edu/templates/articlecco.html?AID=504498">Family Condolence Page</a></li></ul></p><p>--
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The Jewish community mourns with Virginia Tech.
<i>-- Daniel Loeb</i>
The deadliest campus shooting in the history of the US occurred on Monday, April 16 at Virginia Tech. The tragic shootings at Virginia Tech happened on the day Jews all over the world observe Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and which is marked in Israel with two minutes of silence, prayer and reflection.
The United States Congress has called for a minute of silence on Friday, April 20 at noon, to remember Monday's victims, as well as the millions of other men and women around the world who have died at the hands of armed madmen and criminals.
Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and injured 29 more before taking his own life.
Ironically, one of the Virginia Tech victims, aeronautics professor Liviu Librescu, was a survivor of the Holocaust. He died while barricading his classroom against the gunman, saving the lives of several of his students through his sacrifice on Yom Hashoah.
Librescu, born in 1930 in Ploiesti, Romania, survived the Holocaust in the ghetto of Focsani while his father was interned in the Transnistria labor camp. After the war, he studied Aerospace Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and Fluid Mechanics at the Academia de Stiinte din Romania.
He distinguished himself as a researcher at the Institute of Applied Mechanics, Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Aerospace Constructions of Academy of Science of Romania. However, then Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu did not allow him to emigrate to Israel, however, until Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened on Prof. Librescu's behalf in 1978.
After making aliyah, Librescu served as a Professor of Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University. In 1985, he joined the faculty at Virginia Tech where he distinguished himself as the Virginia Tech professor with the greatest number of publications.
At age 76, Professor Librescu held the door of his classroom shut so that Cho Seung-hui could not enter before his students escaped through the windows. Cho shot Liviu Librescu through the door mortally wounding this Professor considered a hero by his students.
Professor Librescu was <a href="http://www.pjvoice.com/v23/23001vatech.aspx">commended posthumously</a> by the President of Romania with the Star of Romania Order in the grade of Great Cross, "as a token of high appreciation for the entire scientific and universitarian activity, as well as for his heroic acts during the tragic events of April 16th 2007 in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University campus, when professor Librescu saved his students' lives at the cost of his own".
Rabbi Yossel Kranz announced that the new Chabad House at Virginia Tech will be named for Professor Liviu Librescu. "Professor Librescu's final act of heroism will be eternally memorialized in the life-affirming activities of the new center," said Rabbi Kranz. The professor's widow Mrs. Marilena Librescu and their sons Ari and Joe shared with Rabbi Kranz their wishes that Librescu House serve as a home of healing, joy and spiritual fulfillment to Virginia Tech's Jewish students.
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<b>Liviu Librescu, profesor de aeronautica la Universitatea Tehnica din Virginia, a murit dupa ce l-a infruntat pe atacatorul care a produs cel mai mare masacru din istoria scolilor americane.</b>
Tragedia, produsa ieri, s-a soldat cu cel putin 33 de morti si 29 raniti.
Conform ultimelor date oferite de politie, numarul victimelor se ridica la 33, inclusiv autorul atacului care s-a sinucis inainte de a fi prins de politie.
Din primele date, atacatorul era un student chinez, de 24 de ani, care venise in SUA cu o bursa, in august 2006, din Shanghai. Unul dintre motivele vehiculate este prietena sa, pe care o banuia ca il insala. Cei doi s-au certat, o alta persoana intervenind pentru a stinge conflictul. Atacatorul i-a impuscat pe amandoi si a parasit caminul.
La scurt timp a avut loc atacul in cladirea Noriss Hall, unde se tin cursurile Universitatii Tehnice. Politia nu a stabilit inca daca cele doua incidente au avut acelasi autor.
"Avea ca 1,80 metri, infatisare asiatica, era imbracat ciudat, aproape ca un cercetas", a povestit pentru CNN Erin Sheehan studenta in primul an la inginerie mecanica.
Politia federala Americana (FBI) a anuntat ca nu exista indicii care sa sugereze ca atacul ar fi un act terorist, dar ancheta nu exclude pentru moment nicio pista.
Conform Star Tribune, unul din lectorii din sala de cursuri in care s-a dechis focul era roman: Liviu Librescu, profesor de aeronautica si specialist in mecanica fluidelor, numit Doctor Honoris Causa de catre Institutul Politehnic din Bucuresti in anul 2000.
Romanul a murit incercand sa blocheze usa pe care a intrat agresorul, conform unor surse apropiate familiei. <b>(Stefan Oprea)</b>
Un individ inarmat a facut cel putin 33 de morti intr-un campus universitar din Virginia, apoi a fost impuscat si el. Printre studentii si profesorii universitatii se numara si romani
Un macel de proportii fara precedent s-a produs ieri la Universitatea Tehnica Virginia, din Blacksburg (estul Statelor Unite), cel putin 33 de tineri pierzandu-si viata impuscati, potrivit primelor indicii, de un agresor care a fost doborat in cele din urma de politie, a anuntat canalul de televiziune Fox News, citand surse federale.
Spitalele din zona universitatii au declarat un total de cel putin 21 de raniti, din care o persoana in stare critica. „Astazi, universitatea a fost lovita de catre o tragedie pe care noi o consideram a fi de proportii monumentale", a declarat rectorul universitatii, Charles Steiger.
„Avem cel putin 20 de morti", s-a rezumat sa spuna Wendell Flinchum, seful politiei campusului, adaugand ca o mare parte a victimelor au fost ucise intr-o singura sala de curs si ca ucigasul se numara printre morti, desi inca nu se cunoaste identitatea acestuia.
"Deocamdata nu stim daca tragatorul era unul dintre studenti sau nu", a declarat Flinchum.
<b>Macel in doua episoade</b>
Cele dintai focuri de arma au fost semnalate la primele ore ale diminetii, cand un student a fost ucis si alti cativa raniti in caminul universitar West Ambler Johnston Hall, care gazduieste 895 de studenti. In urma focurilor de arma, in camin s-a declansat un haos general, au relatat reporterii ziarului universitatii. „O gramada de studenti alergau de colo-colo, ingroziti, in vreme ce politia incerca sa convinga pe toata lumea sa se culce la pamant, pentru a tine situatia sub control", au relatat reporterii citati de CNN.
Doua ore mai tarziu, macelul a fost reluat la Norris Hall, una din cladirile complexului care adaposteste catedrele de inginerie mecanica. Mai multi dintre martorii intervievati de posturile de televiziune americane au declarat ca au auzit „zeci de focuri" trase in incinta campusului si ca au vazut personal manifestari de panica in cladirile adiacente. Unii dintre studentii raniti spun ca au scapat cu viata numai sarind pe geam de la etaj, dar ca nu au vazut cum arata atacatorul.
<b>Panica in masa</b>
Matt Waldron, unul dintre studentii aflati in cladire, descrie scena de panica izbucnita dupa ce cursantii au vazut afara politisti adapostindu-se dupa copaci. „Ne-au spus sa iesim afara si sa traversam campul din fata cladirii, cat de repede posibil. (....) Au urmat scene de cosmar. Era infricosator. Doua colege si-au pierdut controlul din cauza panicii si au sarit de la fereastra salii aflate la etaj. Una din ele si-a rupt glezna, iar cealalta a ramas intinsa la pamant", a povestit Waldron.
Universitatea Virginia Tech, situata la 400 de kilometri sud-vest de Washington, gazduieste nu mai putin de 25.000 de studenti. Acestia au fost sfatuiti ieri sa ramana in cladiri si sa nu se apropie de ferestre pana la identificarea eventualilor alti agresori.
In zilele de 2 si 13 aprilie, campusul a fost evacuat din cauza a doua alerte cu bomba, ambele dovedite false, administratorii promitand o recompensa de 5.000 de dolari pentru deconspirarea farsorilor.
<b>Masacre in scolile americane</b>
Atacul de ieri este cel mai grav de acest gen produs intr-o institutie educationala din SUA.
1. August 1966: Charles Joseph Whitman, un fost puscas marin de 25 de ani, a ucis 13 persoane la Universitatea Texas, inainte de a fi impuscat de politisti.
2. Martie 1998: Doi baieti, de 11 si 13 ani, impusca mortal patru fetite si un profesor in Arkansas.
3. Aprilie 1999: Doi adolescenti ucid 12 elevi si un profesor de la Scoala din Columbine, Colorado, inainte de a se sinucide.
4. Martie 2005: Un elev al unei scoli din Minnesota isi impusca mortal noua colegi si se sinucide.
5. Octombrie 2006: Un individ de 32 de ani ucide 5 fete la o scoala amish din Pennsylvania si isi pune capat zilelor.
<b>MARTURII</b>
<b>Un film de groaza trait pe viu</b>
Inainte de terminarea oficiala a tragediei, mai multi studenti de la Virginia Tech si-au facut publice impresiile pe miniforumul BBC alocat „macelului din Virginia". Intre ei, primul pe lista, romanul Mihai Alexe:
„Sunt student la Virginia Tech si, din fericire, m-am hotarat sa nu ma duc in campus in dimineata aceasta. Am fost instiintati foarte rapid de primul incident, fiind sfatuiti sa stam in camere si sa fim extrem de atenti. Una dintre prietenele mele era la un curs in Norris Hall, unde s-a produs cel de-al doilea incident. Mi-a trimis un e-mail si un mesaj spunandu-mi ca s-a intalnit din intamplare cu faptasul si ca era sa fie impuscata din greseala. A reusit in cele din urma sa se refugieze cu alti studenti intr-una dintre sali si, din cate stiu pana acum, este in siguranta". <b>Mihai Alexe</b>
„Scena de aici este suprarealista. Te uiti la TV si pe internet si stii ca toate astea se intampla la tine in campus. Dar, mai ales ca student, nu-ti dai seama de asta, nu pe de-a-ntregul. Am avut un prieten in salile in care s-a tras, iar scenele pe care le descria el erau de cosmar. Semanau cu scenele din filmele de groaza, ceva la care te uiti, dar nu te-ai astepta vreodata sa ti se intample chiar tie". <b>Brandon</b>
„Suntem inca in soc total, departe de a ne fi revenit. Faptul ca 20 de oameni au fost impuscati in campusul meu mi se pare de neconceput si incredibil. Parca e ceva dintr-un film, numai ca real. Este o tragedie ingrozitoare, una care va avea un impact asupra acestei universitati in anii ce vor veni". <b>Timothy Owen</b>
„E oribil, realmente oribil. In clipa de fata stau chiar in fata campusului. Atat de multi dintre prietenii mei sunt inauntru, fara sa stie ca e oribil. Inca nu-mi vine sa cred ca peste 20 dintre noi au murit...". <b>Richard Allnutt</b>
Cititi si <a href="http://www.evz.ro/article.php?artid=300927"> "Profesorul-erou, inventator si reputat om de stiinta"</a>
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<a href="http://www.expres.ro/article.php?artid=301055">Livia Cimpoeru, Eugenia Mihalcea</a>
<b>Masacrul produs luni la Universitatea americana Virginia Tech din Blacksburg ar fi putut avea un bilant si mai tragic daca nu ar fi existat oameni ca Liviu Librescu.</b>
America retraieste in aceste zile cosmarul masacrelor lipsite de orice ratiune. Pe harta ororilor s-a adaugat luni universitatea tehnica din orasul Blacksburg, unde un tanar student a omorat 32 de persoane, inainte de a-si pune capat zilelor.
Printre personajele centrale ale tragediei de la Virginia Tech se numara si un profesor de origine romana care a reusit, cu pretul vietii, sa salveze o parte dintre studenti.
In dimineata fatidica, in sala 207 a cladirii Norris Hall, se desfasura un curs de germana. Cateva incaperi mai departe, profesorul Liviu Librescu, un reputat om de stiinta nascut in Romania, le preda studentilor. „Era o atmosfera cat se poate de normala", povesteste Richard Mallalieu, student al profesorului Librescu.
<b>Ultima ora a profesorului Librescu</b>
Brusc, in jurul orei 9.00, atacatorul intra in sala 207 inarmat cu doua pistoale si-l impusca pe profesorul Christopher Bishop in cap. Apoi incepe sa traga inspre cei circa 25 de studenti aflati in clasa.
„Cel putin 30 de focuri", isi aminteste studentul Trey Perkins. Doar trei-patru studenti au supravietuit. Criminalul a iesit pe hol, unde a dat peste un ingrijitor care incerca sa ajute o fata ce zacea intr-o balta de sange. A tras de cinci ori asupra ingrijitorului si s-a intors spre 207, insa supravietuitorii blocasera usa.
Atunci s-a indreptat spre sala 204, unde studentii urmareau o expunere de imagini a profesorului Librescu. Auzind focurile de arma din incaperea alaturata, studentii au intrat in panica. Profesorul Librescu s-a repezit la usa, incercand sa o blocheze. Curajul sau a salvat probabil mai multe vieti, caci, in timp ce el tinea usa, o parte dintre studenti au sarit pe ferestre.
<b>Vieti salvate cu pretul vietii</b>
Alec Calhoun, un alt tanar care participa la cursul de ieri al profesorului Librescu, isi aminteste cum, intr-o ultima secunda, inainte de a sari pe geamul salii de curs pentru a-si salva viata, a privit inapoi catre dascalul care tinea usa blocata cu propriul trup. Cu doar o ora inainte, sotia profesorului il adusese pe Librescu la universitate cu masina si il lasase in siguranta in campus, dupa cum noteaza publicatia israeliana „Ynetnews".
Liviu Librescu locuia in SUA impreuna cu sotia sa, Marilena. Profesorul evreu de origine romana va fi ingropat in Israel, dupa cum a declarat pentru „Ynetnews" nora lui Liviu Librescu, Ayala. Aceasta a precizat ca sotia dascalului, Marilena, si fii Arieh si Joe, care traiesc in Israel, fac deja pregatirile pentru inmormantare.
Ziarele israeliene au scris despre tragedia din Virginia, avand in prim-plan imaginea eroului evreu Liviu Librescu, care si-a pierdut viata chiar in ziua comemorarii Holocaustului. Si in Romania, profesorul nascut la Ploiesti este perceput ca un erou.
<b>UN PRIBEAG IMPLINIT</b>
<b>Indragostit de scoala la care preda</b>
Profesorul evreu de origine romana Liviu Librescu a absolvit Facultatea de Inginerie Aerospatiala in cadrul Universitatii Politehnica din Bucuresti (UPB), in 1952. Si-a terminat studiile doctorale la aceeasi institutie de invatamant superior, iar apoi a lucrat pe functia de cercetator la Institutul de Mecanica a Fluidelor din cadrul Academiei de Stiinte.
„In 1969 si-a sustinut teza de doctorat sub conducerea academicianului Carafoli. A facut calculele de rezistenta si de aeroelasticitate pentru proiectarea avioanelor IAR 93", explica prodecanul Serban Tomescu, fost coleg al romanului ucis in masacrul de la universitatea americana.
Serban Tomescu spune ca a incercat inca de luni seara sa afle ce s-a intamplat cu prietenul sau din tinerete. Din pacate, nu i-a raspuns nimeni la telefon in Statele Unite. Ieri, dupa aflarea tristei vesti, ultimele fotografii facute impreuna cu Liviu Librescu si o scrisoare primita de la acesta in anul 2000 il fac sa depene amintiri. Imaginile sunt din acelasi an, 2000, atunci cand Universitatea Politehnica i-a acordat dascalului roman titlul Doctor Honoris Causa.
„Mi-a cerut dupa eveniment sa merg cu el la mormantul parintilor sai din Ploiesti, dar pana la urma a spus ca merge singur", povesteste profesorul Tomescu.
<b>Tara de suflet si cea de adoptie</b>
Liviu Librescu a parasit Romania in 1978, desi Nicolae Ceausescu nu voia sa piarda un cercetator valoros. Supravietuitor al Holocaustului, profesorul de origine romana a reusit pana la urma sa ajunga in tara sa de suflet, Israel, cu ajutorul premierului israelian de la acea vreme, Menachem Begin.
Librescu a fost profesor in cadrul Universitatii Tel-Aviv din Israel pana in 1984, cand a emigrat in tara tuturor posibilitatilor, America. Aici si-a implinit visul de a preda la una dintre cele mai prestigioase universitati din lume in domeniul ingineriei, Virginia Tech.
Unul dintre fii sai, Joe, rezident in Statele Unite, povesteste pentru publicatia israeliana „Ynetnews" ca parintii sai duceau o viata simpla si fericita in vestul Virginiei, intr-o zona situata intre dealuri si munti.
Fara sa caute castiguri materiale imense, profesorul Librescu era indragostit de scoala la care preda si ceea ce ii placea cel mai mult era sa-si invete studentii stiinte mecanice si aeronautica, spune fiul sau.
„Profesorul Librescu s-a comportat intr-un mod exemplar in fata dezastrului. A tinut usa sa nu patrunda criminalul in clasa si a fost ucis prin aceasta de rafala de gloante", spune rectorul UPB, Ecaterina Andronescu. Universitatea Politehnica din Capitala si Universitatea Virginia Tech sunt, de ieri, in doliu. <b>(Eugenia Mihalcea)</b>
<b>Timisoara</b>
<b>„Incerca sa faca o presiune stiintifica"</b>
Liviu Librescu a colaborat ani intregi cu profesori de la Facultatea de Mecanica din Timisoara, care sunt socati de veste. „Imediat ce am vazut stirile din Virginia, i-am trimis un e-mail in care il rugam sa-mi transmita noutati despre dumnealui. Nu stiam ca e unul dintre decedati. Nu puteam sa-mi imaginez ca putea sa se intample asa ceva acolo. Era o atmosfera deosebita, oamenii nici nu-si incuiau usile la case, toti se cunosteau intre ei, toti se salutau", spune profesorul Pantele Chelu de la Facultatea de Mecanica din Timisoara.
„Era un om deosebit, politicos, incerca sa faca o presiune stintifica, dar intr-un mod extraordinar de politicos",
adauga profesorul.
„Stia sa puna intotdeauna intr-un mod deosebit problemele din mecanica vibratiilor, dar si probleme de impact al vehiculelor cosmice cu alte corpuri,", spune si Liviu Beledeu, profesor la aceeasi facultate. <b>(Nicoleta Chiru)</b>
<b>SOLIDARITATE</b>
<b>„Romanii din Virginia, mai uniti dupa masacru"</b>
Romanii din Blacksburg, Virginia, au ramas uimiti de ceea ce s-a intamplat. Chiar daca nu l-au cunoscut pe profesorul Liviu Librescu, unii dintre ei au inceput sa intre in contact dupa evenimente, socati de tragedie.
Alexandru Papoiu locuieste la 90 de minute de mers cu masina de Blacksburg. El a inceput sa-i caute pe romanii din zona prin internet, dupa ce a aflat ce s-a intamplat. „Sunt consternat! Sunt afectat ca un profesor de origine romana a cazut intr-un asemenea incident. Pe strada am aflat ce se petrece, pentru ca autoritatile sunt foarte precaute la ce informatii dau. Ce sa va mai spun, oamenii sunt siderati", povesteste Alexandru.
Marius Popescu, doctorand la universitate, se indrepta spre campus in momentul atacului. „Eu am ajuns cu masina pe langa campus la ora 12.30. De fapt, nici nu am putut sa intru, ca strazile erau blocate. Nu stiam ce se petrece. Abia apoi am aflat. Toata lumea de aici e in soc si nimeni nu intelege cum de s-a putut intampla asa ceva", spune el.
<b>„Anul asta scolar a fost foarte ciudat"</b>
Acum, universitatea este inchisa, campusul este gol. „Lucrul este atat de surprinzator. Orasul asta e foarte mic si linistit. Majoritatea oamenilor de aici lucreaza la universitate", arata Marius Popescu. Pana la momentul tragediei, unul dintre atuurile Universitatii din Virginia era tocmai linistea ce domnea aici. Oficialii institutiei foloseau asta ca sa atraga candidati.
„Numai ca anul asta scolar a fost foarte ciudat. Au fost mai multe atacuri prin tara. Nu sunt eu foarte familiar cu metodele de consiliere in universitatile americane, dar stiu ca ei se preocupa cu asta, au un centru pentru cei cu probleme si care au nevoie de sfaturi", arata Marius Popescu.
Romanca Denisa O. se afla in campus in momentul atacului, intr-un corp opus celor in care s-a tras. A apucat sa vada cum vin ambulantele si politia. Spune ca va participa la marsul ce va avea loc in amintirea celor care si-au pierdut viata. „Eu nu cunosc pe nimeni din comunitatea romaneasca de aici. Dar faptul ca un profesor roman si-a pierdut viata este cu atat mai socant", spune ea. <b>(Andrei Udisteanu)</b>
<b>Marturii</b>
<b>Cosmar trait cu ochii deschisi</b>
Sub efectul socului si al durerii de a-si fi vazut colegii omorati cu sange rece sub ochii lor, unii supravietuitori au mai avut puterea sa relateze presei cosmarul prin care au trecut. <b>(Livia Cimpoeru)</b>
„Toti s-au aruncat la podea cand a inceput sa traga. Atacatorul era foarte serios si avea o mina calma." <b>(Richard Mallalieu)</b>
„A avansat un metru si a inceput sa traga. Avea un aer foarte hotarat si a reusit sa-i impuste aproape pe toti. Eu am scapat pre-facandu-ma ca sunt moarta. Am vazut gloantele cum intra in trupuri. Era sange peste tot. Unii lesinasera, probabil din cauza socului sau de durere. Am fost una dintre cei doar patru care au scapat." <b>(Erin Sheehan)</b>
„In prima instanta, nu ne-am dat seama ce se intampla, se auzeau ca zgomotele de la lucrarile de constructii. Apoi am auzit o succesiune de focuri, probabil vreo 50 in total. La un moment dat am auzit tipetele celor care fugeau si ni s-a facut frica, intrebandu-ne ce se intampla. Am asteptat infricosati, cu gandul ca o sa ajunga si la noi." <b>(Tiffany Ottey)</b>
<b>Filmul evenimentelor</b>
<b>Studentii, coordonati prin e-mail</b>
ora 7.15, ora locala: politia este chemata la West Ambler Johnston Hall, un camin din campusul de la Virginia Tech. Un barbat si o femeie fusesera impuscati mortal
ora 7.30: doi raniti sunt transportati la Spitalul regional Montgomery
ora 8.00: ora de incepere a cursurilor. Crezand ca atacatorul a parasit campusul, politia decide sa trateze evenimentul ca pe un incident izolat
ora 9.26: administratia anunta studentii prin e-mail ca in incinta institutiei s-au tras focuri de arma si ii avertizeaza sa fie prudenti
ora 9.30: studenti prezenti in cladirea Noris Hall suna la politie, anuntand ca s-a tras din nou.
Un necunoscut intra din clasa in clasa, ucigand 30 de persoane, dupa care se sinucide
ora 10.16: administratia trimite un e-mail prin care anunta ca toate cursurile au fost suspendate si cere studentilor din campus sa se incuie in camere
ora 12.15: rectorul universitatii, Charles Steger, anunta intr-o conferinta de presa ca bilantul depaseste 20 de morti. Ulterior, numarul creste la 33 de morti, inclusiv atacatorul.
<b>Ancheta</b>
<b>Autorul macelului, un student coreean</b>
Politia Universitatii Virginia Tech a anuntat, ieri, ca barbatul care a comis masacrul era un student sud-coreean, in varsta de 23 de ani, pe nume Cho Seung-Hui. Acesta avea statut de rezident permanent pe teritoriul american si era student in ultimul an la Facultatea de Limba si Literatura Engleza.
Declaratia politiei a venit la scurt timp dupa ce rectorul universitatii, Charles Steger, a afirmat ca atacatorul era un student de orgine asiatica si locuia in campusul universitar. Potrivit CNN, Cho era un singuratic si, din acest motiv, autoritatile au gasit cu greu informatii despre el.
Politia a anuntat ca rezultatele de la laborator au aratat ca una dintre cele doua arme gasite la Norris Hall a fost utilizata in ambele atacuri. Potrivit presei, este vorba despre un singur asasin, care dorea sa se razbune din pricina unui esec amoros. El a intrat inarmat in camera fostei sale iubite din caminul West Ambler Johnston Hall, care era in compania noului sau prieten - Ryan Clark, impuscandu-i mortal pe cei doi. <b>(Andreea Romanovschi)</b>
<b>Record trist</b>
<b>Cel mai sangeros masacru din SUA</b>
Masacrul de la Virginia Tech este de departe cel mai sangeros din istoria SUA, plasandu-se pe un infam loc doi la scara mondiala.
In 1996, un dezechilibrat mintal a deschis foc asupra trecatorilor din statiunea turistica Port Arthur, pe insula australiana Tasmania, ucigand 35 de oameni. Alte 34 de persoane au fost ranite.
Cu 10 ani mai devreme, un alt dezechilibrat mintal a impuscat si a injunghiat mortal 29 de oameni, in capitala columbiana Bogota.
In 1991, americanul George Hen-nard a intrat cu camioneta intr-un restaurant din Killeen (Texas), deschizand foc asupra mesenilor cu doua pistoale. A omorat 23 de oameni, dupa care s-a sinucis.
<b>Reactii</b>
<b>Stupoare si revolta</b>
Presedintele american George W. Bush a ordonat, ieri, arborarea drapelelor in berna pana duminica seara. In calitate de reprezentanti ai intregii natiuni americane, seful Casei Albe si sotia sa, Laura, au participat, ieri, la Blacksburg, la comemorarea victimelor carnagiului.
Studentii de la Virginia Tech sunt revoltati si nu pot sa inteleaga cum a putut fi comis un masacru de asemenea proportii.
Unii dintre ei spun ca administratia institutiei scolare ia masuri tardive. Multi s-au plans ca nu au fost avertizati in timp util cu privire la primul incident petrecut in campus, primul e-mail fiind trimis abia la doua ore dupa atac.
<b>Un sud-coreean furios</b>
<b>Biletul ucigasului: „Voi m-ati impins sa fac asta"</b>
Politia Universitatii Virginia Tech a anuntat ieri ca barbatul care a comis masacrul era un tanar sud-coreean, in varsta de 23 de ani, pe nume Cho Seung-Hui.
Acesta avea statut de rezident permanent in SUA si era student in ultimul an la Facultatea de Limba si Literatura Engleza. Cho emigrase in SUA impreuna cu familia pe cand avea 8 ani.
Studentul a lasat in camera sa de camin o lunga scrisoare in care isi exprima mania fata de „copiii de bani gata" si fata de desfraul din societatea americana.
„Voi m-ati impins sa fac asta", mai scrie el. Politia a stabilit ca Cho Seung-Hui a comis primele doua crime din camin, s-a reintors in camera sa, unde a redactat scrisoarea, a reincarcat armele, dupa care s-a indreptat spre salile de curs.
In rucsacul sau a fost gasita chitanta de la achizitionarea, pe 13 aprilie, a unui pistol Glock de 9 mm, alaturi de doua cutite si cutii de cartuse. Celalalt pistol gasit la locul macelului, de calibru 22, a fost cumparat de Cho tot cu cateva zile in urma. <b>(Andreea Romanovschi)</b>
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<b>De ieri, el este Cetatean de Onoare - post mortem, al municipiului</b>
Cea mai oribila crima savarsita vreodata intr-un campus universitar din SUA - dupa cum a fost caracterizat atacul armat de la Universitatea Virginia Tech, in urma caruia au fost asasinate 32 de persoane - a adus in prim-planul atentiei opiniei publice mondiale un erou. Numele sau - Liviu Librescu, profesorul care si-a aparat studentii, blocand cu propriul corp, usa de acces criminalului. Strapuns de gloante, ultima lui lectie urma sa fie aceea a curajului, a sacrificiului, a apararii studentilor sai cu propria-i viata. S-a spus despre profesorul erou ca este de origine romana. Cu fireasca emotie aveam sa aflam insa, ca profesorul Librescu este ploiestean. Aici s-a nascut, in 1930, aici a locuit si si-a facut studiile liceale. In memoria si pentru cinstirea jertfei sale, ieri, la Sinagoga din Ploiesti, a avut loc o manifestare omagiala. Aceasta a constat intr-o rugaciune traditionala spusa in limba ebraica si a fost oficiata de Gilu Iuftariu, vicepresedintele comunitatii evreiesti din municipiu, organizatie ce aduna in prezent, aproximativ 100 de membri. "Liviu Librescu s-a nascut la Ploiesti acum 77 de ani dintr-o familie de evrei, a facut studiile la Liceul "Sfintii Petru si Pavel" si a absolvit Institutul Politehnic din Bucuresti in 1953. Profesorul erou era considerat, in lumea academica, drept o somitate; a fost recunoscut ca fondatorul teoriei aplicatiilor in domeniul petrochimiei si, de asemenea, foarte apreciat datorita muncii sale de cercetare in domeniul aerospatial. Din nefericire, profesorul Librescu a fost ucis in incercarea sa de a-si salva studentii de ploaia de gloante", cu aceste cuvinte si-a inceput discursul vicepresedintele comunitatii evreiesti. De asemenea, acesta a mai precizat: "L-am cunoscut pe profesorul Librescu, cu multi ani in urma si chiar am mentinut legatura prin intermediul corespondentei. Intotdeauna a demonstrat un grad de cultura si de bunatate deosebit, nu a uitat niciodata de unde a plecat, drept pentru care a revenit in tara acum cativa ani cu urna cu cenusa a tatalui sau, pentru a-l inhuma in cimitirul din Ploiesti. Gestul sau de sacrificiu demonstreaza o marinimie sufleteasca deosebita, acesta oferindu-ne o ultima lectie de viata".
Printre cei prezenti la manifestare s-au mai numarat reprezentanti ai Primariei Municipiului Ploiesti, ai Muzeului de Istorie si Arheologie Prahova, ai Muzeului de Arta Ploiesti etc.
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Ieri, consilierii locali i-au acordat prof.univ.dr. Liviu Librescu, Titlul de Cetatean de Onoare al municipiului Ploiesti, post-mortem.
Ana-Maria DRAGOMIR
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Focsaniul va avea, de luna viitoare, un nou cartier, "Erou prof. dr. Liviu Librescu", situat chiar in centrul orasului, in jurul templului evreiesc, construit in 1896.
Consiliul Local Focsani a decis, saptamana trecuta, sa atribuie fostului cartier evreiesc numele profesorului in semn de omagiu pentru ca si-a aparat cu viata studentii in timpul masacrului din 16 aprilie de la Universitatea Virginia Tech din SUA.
Propunerea se afla acum la avizare la Comisia Judeteana de Atribuire de Denumiri de pe langa Institutia Prefectului, urmand sa fie aprobata in cateva zile.
Decizia municipalitatii focsanene a fost salutata si de fostii studenti ai profesorului evreu de origine romana. Tinerii au facut o baza de date digitala cu toate materiale publicate in lume despre masacrul din 16 aprilie. Baza de date, care cuprinde peste 350 de documente, poate fi accesata pe site-ul www.april16archive.org. Profesorul Liviu Librescu a stat la Focsani pana la varsta de 14 ani.
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<b>'This Holocaust survivor gave his own life so that others may live,' US president says during Shoah memorial service in Washington. On Iran: You who have survived evil know that the only way to defeat it is to look it in the face and not back down</b>
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 04.18.07, 20:24 / <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3082,00.html">Israel News</a>
<b>WASHINGTON</b> - US President George W. Bush on Wednesday honored Professor Liviu Librescu, an Israeli Holocaust survivor who died trying to keep a gunman from shooting his students in a <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3388734,00.html">killing spree</a> at Virginia Tech University.
Librescu, an aeronautics engineer and teacher at the school for 20 years, saved the lives of several students by using his body to barricade a classroom door before he was gunned down in Monday's massacre.
"That day we saw horror, but we also saw quiet acts of courage," Bush said at a memorial service held at the US Holocaust Museum to a crowd that included many survivors.
"We saw this courage in a teacher named Liviu Librescu. With the gunman set to enter his class, this brave professor blocked the door with his body while his students fled to safety. On the Day of Remembrance, this Holocaust survivor gave his own life so that others may live. And this morning we honor his memory and we take strength from his example.
<b>'You who have found refuge in a Jewish homeland'</b>
President Bush continued to say that, "This is a place devoted to memory. Inside this building are etched the words of the prophet Isaiah: You are my witness. As part of this witness, these walls show how one of the world's most advanced nations embraced a policy aimed at the annihilation of the Jewish people."
Turning his attention to the Iranian nuclear threat, the American president said, "You who bear the tattoos of death camps hear the leader of Iran declare that the Holocaust is a myth. You who have found refuge in a Jewish homeland know that tyrants and terrorists have vowed to wipe it from the map. And you who have survived evil know that the only way to defeat it is to look it in the face and not back down."
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and newly appointed US ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, were also on hand for the Holocaust memorial service.
<b>Associated Press contributed to the report</b>
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<b>One of victims in Virginia Tech shooting rampage Monday is Prof Liviu Librescu, senior researcher at university. Librescu was killed after he stayed behind his class to block door and protect students. Massacre claimed lives of 32 people</b>
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<b>WASHINGTON</b> - Prof Liviu Librescu, a <a href="http://www.esm.vt.edu/php/person.php?id=10023">senior researcher and lecturer</a> at Virginia Tech, is among the 32 people who were killed during a <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3388734,00.html">shooting rampage</a> at the university Monday.
His wife, Marlina, and two sons, Arieh and Joe, have already begun making arrangements for his burial in Israel.
The Virginia Tech Police Department identified the campus gunman as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a student and native of South Korea.
An official at the South Korean Foreign Ministry said that it could not rule out that the shooter was from South Korea but said it had not received any such notification from the US Embassy.
One of Prof Librescu's students, Alec Calhoun, who was with him at the classroom when the shooting started, told AP that at about 9:05 am, he and classmates heard "a thunderous sound from the classroom next door, what sounded like an enormous hammer."
When students realized the sounds were gunshots, Calhoun said, they started flipping over desks for hiding places. Others dashed to the windows of the second-floor classroom, kicking out the screens and jumping from the ledge of the room.
Calhoun said that just before he climbed out the window, he turned to look at the professor (Librescu), who had stayed behind to block the door.
Librescu's wife drove him to work on Monday, and he was killed about an hour later. His daughter-in-law Ayala, who is married to his son, Joe, told Ynet: "I heard he blocked the door of the classroom he was teaching... he must have realized that the murderer was approaching. He saved his students and was killed by gunshots."
"He has been teaching there for 20 years, and was a senior, world-renowned lecturer. He is the professor with the highest number of publications in the history of Virginia Tech. In the past, he taught at Tel Aviv University and the Technion," she added.
Ayala said that her father-in-law was passionate about his research and a dedicated family man.
<b>A true gentleman</b>
Prof Librescu and his wife are both Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1978.
Librescu was an accomplished scientist in Romania, and the Communist regime had tried to prevent him from making aliyah to Israel. He was allowed to leave the country only after the Israeli prime minister at the time Menachem Begin appealed the matter to President Nicolae Ceausescu.
Several years later, Librescu left for a sabbatical in the United States and has remained there since. His first son, Arieh, lives in Israel, while his other son, Joe, resides in the US.
"I understand from friends that my father was a hero," the son Joe told Ynet. "In fact, by blocking the door with his body he saved all the students who were in the classroom."
Joe said that his parents were very happy in the United States, where they have been living since 1984. "He and my mom led a simple life, at a pastoral place in West Virginia, between hills and mountains, and he loved the school in which he taught."
"He is scientist who did not work for money, but for the pleasure he got from his occupation," he added.
<b>AP contributed to the report</b>
First Published: 04.17.07, 07:17
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<b>Hundreds of mourners accompany Prof Librescu to his final resting place. 'After surviving the Holocaust and Nicolae Ceausescu's regime in Romania, he ended up being shot in Virginia,' friend says</b>
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Published: 04.20.07, 12:44 / <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3082,00.html">Israel News</a>
Professor Liviu Librescu, who was murdered in the Virginia Tech shooting this week, was buried Friday morning at the Ra'anana cemetery.
Hundreds of mourners accompanied Librescu to his final resting place.
Among those who came to pay their respects was the head of <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3312653,00.html">Jewish Agency Zeev Bielski</a> who was also the former Mayor of Ra'anana, the Romanian consulate general, friends, relatives and media from all over the world.
Shmulik Moyal, a neighbor and friend of Professor Librescu for twenty years, spoke of how one can never know how life will turn out. "After the professor survived the Holocaust and Nicolae Ceausescu's regime in Romania, he ended up being shot in Virginia."
"He died in the place he most loved; he stopped the killer with his own body so that students could live," Moyal said.
<b>'Never gave up on his dream'</b>
Choked by tears, the professor's wife, Marlena, thanked her husband for the two sons he gave her, saying that she hoped he would look after them from above.
The professor's two sons, Joe and Arieh, eulogized their father in Romanian, English and Hebrew, saying that their father had always taught them to be good people, but he never taught them how to become heroes.
In his eulogy Bielski said that it seems that the way Librescu met his death reflects more than anything his personal life story.
"As a Holocaust survivor he managed to rehabilitate his life, to raise a warm and loving family with his wife Marilena who had also been through the Holocaust," Bielski said.
"He struggled to come to Israel, never giving up his dream of living a meaningful Jewish life; he realized his dream of coming to Israel in 1978 thanks to the personal intervention of Menachem Begin with Romania's leader at the time Ceausescu; he became part of the academic world in Israel; he taught and made important achievements as a researcher and a scientist at the Technion, the Tel Aviv University and later at Virginia Tech, where he lectured and researched during the past 20 years."
Gheorghe Angelescu, adviser to the president of Romania, presented Marlena Librescu with the Star of Romania - the country's highest civilian honor, which was previously granted to the prime ministers of France and Italy.
Among the Chabad representatives present was Rabbi Motti Seligson, who told ynetnews how they had taken care of the burial arrangements, and accompanied the family with the coffin on their way back to Israel.
Seligson said that the professor's wife had asked Chabad to organize the lighting of Shabbat candles at the university campus in memory of her husband, who cherished this tradition
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<b>During Tuesday's massacre at Virginia Tech, in the USA, a holocaust survivor with ties to Tiraspol was killed. Liviu Librescu had survived deportation from Romania to the killing fields of World War II's Transnistria. The territory was never part of Romania or of any independent Moldovan state</b>.
<i>By Times staff, 18/Apr/2007</i>
BLACKSBURG (Wires, Tiraspol Times) - Liviu Librescu, a Romanian-born Israeli professor, survived the killing fields of Transnistria as a teenager but fell to the bullet of a lone gunman in an American university campus Tuesday.
The 76 year-old Holocaust survivor was shot and killed in the Virginia Tech massacre while holding off the gunman at his lecture hall entrance so his students could escape.
Librescu was among the thirty-three people who were murdered in the Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, 2007. He was killed during a class in the Norris Hall Engineering Building by a student, Korean-born Cho Seung-hui, 23.
At Virginia Tech, his recent position was Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics.
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 his students had escaped through the windows.
<b>A hero to his students</b>
A number of Librescu's students have called him a hero because of his actions, with one student, Asael Arad, saying that all the professor's students "lived because of him".
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.
His death came on Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.
Liviu Librescu was born in 1930 to a Jewish family in the city of PloieÅŸti, Romania. During World War II, his native Romania joined forces with Nazi Germany and started an extermination campaign of Jews.
His family was first interned in a labor camp in what the Romanians at the time called Transnistria and then transferred to the ghetto of FocÅŸani.
According to a report compiled by the Romanian government in 2004, between 280,000 and 380,000 Jews were killed by Romania's Nazi-allied regime during the war. Others put the number higher, pointing to Romanian attempts to whitewash the scope of the crimes it committed while it occupied Transnistria (today known by its official name, Pridnestrovie, or by English names such as Transdniester and Transdniestria).
<b>Anti-Semitic Romanians</b>
" - We were in Romania during the Second World War, and we were Jews there among the Germans, and among the anti-Semitic Romanians," Marlena Librescu told Israeli Channel 10 TV on Tuesday.
From 1941 to 1944, Romania invaded occupied Transnistria (Pridnestrovie) which was a territory outside its own natural ethnic and historical borders. At no time in history was this territory ever part of Romania or of any independent Moldovan state, having also been majority Slavic and a traditional part of Russia or Ukraine.
During the Romanian occupation, the area was used as a giant slaughter house of Jews. At no time did Romania ever attempt to formally incorporate the territory into any Romanian or Moldovan state, recognizing that the natural border had always been the Dniester River; today the border between Pridnestrovie and Moldova.
Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust to become an accomplished scientist in Romania.
He left the Romanian communist regime in 1978 after a direct request was made by the Prime Minister of Israel, Menachem Begin, to President of Romania, Communist dictator Nicolae CeauÅŸescu.
After emigrating to Israel, from 1979 to 1985 Librescu was Professor of Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering at Tel-Aviv University. From 1985 until his death, he served as Professor at Virginia Tech. <i>(With information from AP, Wikipedia)</i>
See also:
<a href="http://www.tiraspoltimes.com/news/romania_whitewash_of_transnistria_invasion_has_holocaust_survivors_outraged.html">» Romania whitewash of Transnistria invasion angers Holocaust survivors</a>
<a href="http://www.tiraspoltimes.com/features/transnistria_the_artificial_name_for_the_romanian_auschwitz.html">» Transnistria, the artificial name for "the Romanian Auschwitz"</a>
<a href="http://www.tiraspoltimes.com/news/re_affirming_independence_tiraspol_celebrates_liberation_from_romania_invasion.html">» Re-affirming independence, Tiraspol celebrates its liberation from Romania</a>
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<b>Joseph (Joe) Librescu, fiul profesorului care si-a aparat studentii cu pretul vietii in timpul masacrului din SUA, a transmis un mesaj emotionant pentru cititorii HotNews.ro. "Sint baiatul profesorului Librescu si vreau sa multumesc tuturor celor care au scris note asa de frumoase despre el. Chiar daca a plecat din tara demult, niciodata nu i-a uitat frumusetea, si la vara trebuia sa ne intalnim toate familia la Predeal pentru o reuniune. Inca o data va mulzumesc pentru cuvintele frumoase scrise aici".
• <a href="http://www.hotnews.ro/articol_70002-Liviu-Librescu-profesorul-de-eroism.htm">Liviu Librescu, profesorul de eroism</a>
• <a href="http://www.hotnews.ro/articol_70129-Profesorul-Librescu-decorat-post-mortem-de-Traian-Basescu.htm">Profesorul Librescu, decorat post-mortem de Traian Basescu</a>
• <a href="http://www.hotnews.ro/articol_70080-Universitatile-din-SUA-in-stare-de-alerta-Ieri-s-a-inregistrat-inca-o-amenintare.htm">Universitatile din SUA - in stare de alerta. Ieri s-a inregistrat inca o amenintare</a></b>
Chiar daca a plecat din tara demult, niciodata nu i-a uitat frumusetea, si la vara trebuia sa ne intalnim toate familia la Predeal pentru o reuniune.
Inca o data va mulzumesc pentru cuvintele frumoase scrise aici".Reamintim ca profesorul de origine romana Liviu Librescu a murit luni, in timpul masacrului de la Universitatea Tehnica din Virginia, studentii sai povestind ca si-a sacrificat propria viata pentru a-i face scapati din fata asasinului.
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Profesorul Liviu Librescu, romanul erou al Americii, impuscat mortal intr-un amfiteatru al Universitatii Virginia Tech din SUA in timp ce incerca sa-si salveze studentii din fata atacatorului sud-coreean, a copilarit la Focsani, unde a trait din plin ororile antisemite.
Aici locuiau bunicii lui din partea mamei, aici a avut domiciliul fortat tatal sau inainte de a fi trimis in lagarele de exterminare din Transnistria si tot aici a cunoscut-o pe sotia lui, Marilena Semian, fiica unui stomatolog cunoscut in acele timpuri, cu care s-a casatorit in 1968.
Sotia, medic de profesie, a urmat liceul de fete din Focsani. Ulterior si-a urmat sotul in Israel si mai apoi in Blacksburg - SUA.
<b>Prigonit de legionari si de comunisti</b>
Profesorul Liviu Librescu se numara printre cei care, inainte de 1989, au cerut Institutului Yad Vashem din Israel, memorialul dedicat celor sase milioane de evrei omorati in timpul Holocaustului, decorarea Reginei-mama Elena cu titlul de „Drept intre popoare".
In corespondenta electronica purtata cu corespondentul EVZ in Vrancea, profesorul isi amintea de prigoana impotriva evreilor. „Au fost ani de suferinta, cand tatii nostri, al meu si al sotiei mele, au avut domiciliul fortat.
Tatal meu a fost deportat de aici in Transnistria dupa ce a lucrat o vreme in munti, la Soveja, intr-un batalion de munca", scria profesorul Liviu Librescu cu putin timp inainte de masacrul din Virginia.
Cu toate amintirile neplacute, profesorul isi amintea cu placere de Focsani, orasul unde a urmat scoala israelita si mai apoi Colegiul Unirea. La 60 de ani de la Holocaust, profesorul Liviu Librescu si-a amintit de copilaria sa petrecuta intr-o atmosfera profund ostila evreimii.
„In anii copilariei, inaintea inceperii razboiului, Focsaniul a constituit pentru mine orasul in care veneam cu parintii sa-mi vizitez bunica, Paulina Finkelstein, si familiile surorilor mamei mele. Impreuna cu parintii, Izidor si Mina Librescu, locuiam atunci la Ploiesti. Tatal meu era avocat, dar, din motive rasiale, in tot timpul razboiului a fost radiat din barou.
Tatal meu a fost dus la lagarul de la Teius. Dupa desfiintarea acestuia, a fost trimis cu domiciliul fortat la Focsani.
In 1942, ne-am mutat la Focsani pentru a ne reuni cu tata, dar vremurile potrivnice au facut ca el sa fie luat la munca obligatorie, dupa care a fost deportat in Transnistria. Dupa razboi s-a intors cu sanatatea mult subrezita si cu moralul foarte scazut.
Tata a reintrat in barou, dar in anul 1948, cand regimul comunist s-a instaurat la putere, a fost din nou radiat pentru motivul ca s-a opus „democratizarii baroului"", spunea profesorul Librescu.
<b>Fortat sa demisioneze</b>
In ciuda pericolelor si a greutatilor intampinate de familia sa, Liviu Librescu a urmat Politehnica la Bucuresti, Sectia de aviatie. A ajuns un nume important, dar a trebuit sa renunte la tot ca sa poata pleca in Tara Sfanta.
„Pentru a-mi putea depune actele de emigrare in Israel a trebuit, in anul 1975, sa-mi dau demisia si am fost fortat sa stau trei ani fara lucru", le-a dezvaluit profesorul prietenilor sai din Focsani.
„In Israel am fost atestat profesor la Tel Aviv University. In 1985 am plecat la Virginia Polytechnic Institute in SUA. De atunci, lucrez aici, ca profesor la Engineering Sciens and Mecanics Department, si imi place foarte mult munca mea", a continuat profesorul.
Liviu Librescu a fost coleg de scoala, la Focsani, cu Zvi Ben Dov, fost director in cadrul Aeroportului International „Ben Gurion" din Tel Aviv, actualmente director general al organizatiei A.M.I.R.
<b>„Important e sa nu ne uitam trecutul"</b>
„Pe Liviu Librescu il pretuiam mult si eu, si sotia mea Edna. De Paste i-am trimis felicitari si mi-a raspuns cu multa amabilitate.
I-am scris ca plecam la Focsani sa vizitam orasul copilariei noastre si l-am invitat sa vina cu noi intr-o excursie de suflet.
Liviu mi-a raspuns ca, din pacate, nu poate sa fie cu noi pentru ca era implicat in unele proiecte la universitate, desi i-ar fi placut sa revada locurile copilariei. Mi-a spus ca este important sa nu ne uitam trecutul", ne-a spus Zvi Ben Dov. El a adaugat ca profesorul va fi inmormantat in Israel.
<b>EROU NATIONAL</b>
<b>Si-a salvat toti studentii!</b>
Moartea tragica a profesorului Liviu Librescu a fost deplansa ieri de presa internationala, de studentii de la Virginia Tech, de profesori, si nu in ultimul rand de rudele sale.
Eroismul dascalului de 76 de ani, care si-a salvat intreaga clasa, a fost evocat in declaratiile oficiale facute ieri de reprezentantii universitatii americane.
Librescu a murit blocand usa clasei cu trupul sau, timp in care toti studentii au sarit de la fereastra salii de curs situata la etajul al doilea al cladirii.
Unul dintre cei doi fii ai sai, Joe Librescu, a povestit pentru postul american de televiziune CNN ca este mandru de gestul eroic al tatalui sau. „Era unic in mai multe privinte. Se considera un fel de ambasador al Israelului in aceasta parte a lumii", a declarat Joe Librescu.
<b>STEAUA ROMANIEI</b>
<b>Decorat post-mortem</b>
Presedintele Traian Basescu l-a decorat ieri, post-mortem, pe profesorul Liviu Librescu. Seful statului i-a acordat ordinul National Steaua Romaniei in grad de Mare Cruce.
Potrivit unui comunicat al presedintiei, decoratia i-a fost acordata „in semn de inalta apreciere si recunostinta pentru intreaga activitate stiintifica si pentru eroismul dovedit in timpul tragicelor evenimente de la Virginia Polytechnic Institute". (Laura Gafencu)
<b>Neadaptat la societate</b>
<b>Asasinul, un solitar incarcat de ura</b>
Autorul masacrului de la Universitatea Virginia Tech, soldat cu 32 de morti, a fost identificat, insa personalitatea sa si motivele ce l-au impins la aceasta crima oribila raman invaluite in mister.
Principalul obstacol in calea realizarii unui portret cat mai exact il reprezinta faptul ca era un tip solitar, fara prieteni care sa poata povesti despre el. In opinia expertilor, cei mai multi criminali in serie sunt insi singuratici, cu dificultati de adaptare la societate.
Criminalul din Virginia, Cho Seung-hui (23 de ani), un sud-coreean emigrat in SUA impreuna cu parintii, la varsta de 8 ani, era o enigma pentru colegii sai. Nu vorbea cu nimeni, lua masa singur la cantina si respingea orice tentativa din partea celorlalti studenti de a se imprieteni.
Un coleg a povestit ca, in urma cu un an, la inceputul unui nou curs de literatura engleza, Cho a fost singurul care nu si-a trecut numele pe lista, punand in loc un semn de intrebare. Profesorul chiar l-a intrebat: „Semn de intrebare e numele tau?".
„Nu se apropia de nimeni. Nu vorbea niciodata", a povestit studenta Julie Poole. Mai mult, tanarul cu care impartea camera de camin, Joe Aust, a relatat ca abandonase de mult orice incercare de a se apropia de Cho. Nu-si spuneau nici macar „buna dimineata".
La fel s-a intamplat si in dimineata crimelor. Cand s-a trezit, Aust l-a vazut pe Cho deja la calculator, poate punand la punct ultimele amanunte ale planului sau dement. Nu si-au spus o vorba. In mod ironic, in momentul in care a patruns in cladirea Norris Hall, unde a ucis 30 de studenti, Cho si-a salutat victimele: „Buna, ce mai faceti?".
<b>Gelos pe copiii de bani gata</b>
Biletul conceput de Cho Seung-hui in dimineata masacrului lasa sa se intrevada ura pe care o nutrea fata de colegii sai. In mesajul de adio, criminalul are cuvinte dure la adresa celor pe care ii numeste „copii de bani gata" sau „sarlatani". El denunta, de asemenea, dezmatul care domneste in campus.
Ura lui Cho fata de colegii mai instariti este explicabila, in conditiile in care provenea dintr-o familie modesta. Inainte de a emigra in SUA, parintii sai duceau o existenta destul de grea, intr-o periferie a capitalei sud-coreene, Seul.
In America, parintii au reusit sa cumpere o spalatorie ecologica si sa duca o existenta decenta, fara a-i putea insa oferi fiului cine stie ce. Potrivit presei de la Seul, care urmareste cu mare interes drama din SUA, parintii criminalului sunt internati, in stare de soc.
Ei ar fi incercat sa se sinucida dupa aflarea teribilei vesti, tatal taindu-si venele, in timp ce mama a baut o substanta toxica.
<b>Obsedat de violenta</b>
Colegii si profesorii avusesera de-a lungul ultimilor ani suficiente semnale ca tanarul sud-coreean este ciudat. In 2005, sefa departamentului de creatie literara, Lucinda Roy, a atras atentia conducerii facultatii de engleza ca Cho Seung-hui este un tip cu probleme.
Acest lucru era evident din lectura a doua texte scrise de baiat, ce dezvaluie obsesia pentru violenta si furia ce-l macinau.
Unul din texte a fost publicat pe internet. „Richard McBeef" este o piesa intr-un act despre un baiat de 13 ani care isi acuza tatal vitreg, aparent fara motiv, de pedofilie si de asasinarea tatalui sau natural.
Dincolo de lipsa evidenta de talent, piesa socheaza prin limbajul violent al copilului, care planuieste sa-l omoare pe tatal vitreg cu o drujba. In celalalt text scris de Cho este vorba despre trei elevi hartuiti de un profesor. „Atunci cand citeam piesele lui Cho era ca un cosmar.
Piesele erau pline de o violenta macabra si faceau referire la arme la care eu unul nu m-as fi gandit", spune colegul sau Ian McFarlane.
<b>GELOZIE</b>
<b>Scanteia care a aprins fitilul</b>
Problemele sentimentale sau, mai degraba, lipsa lor par sa fi jucat si ele un rol important in drama ce a indoliat America. Prima victima a lui Cho Seung-hui a fost Emily Hilscher, o bruneta cu ochi albastri in varsta de 18 ani. Potrivit martorilor oculari ai primului act al dramei, Cho s-a dus la 7.00 dimineata in caminul unde statea Emily.
Cei doi s-au certat, in scandal intervenind un alt student, presupus a fi iubitul actual al fetei. Cho i-a impuscat pe amandoi. Nu s-a stabilit cu certitudine daca el avusese o legatura sentimentala cu fata. Politia a declansat urmarirea unui alt fost iubit al lui Emily. In momentul in care il interogau pe respectiv, politistii au fost informati ca in campusul universitar se trage din nou. (Jacqueline Prager)
<b>Reteta masacrelor</b>
<b>O traditie a violentei si arme la indemana</b>
Marginalizarea sociala, problemele legate de virilitate, violenta glorificata de productiile cinematografice sau de televiziune si usurinta de a procura arme ar putea fi, potrivit sociologilor, ingredientele care au condus la masacrul de la Universitatea Virginia Tech.
„Nu trebuie sa atribuim aceste crime doar problemelor mentale ale unui individ, ci sa ne concentram asupra ansamblului de factori socio-culturali ce joaca un rol in acest tip de violenta", spune sociologul Joseph Gasper, citat de AFP.
Acesta subliniaza usurinta extraordinara cu care orice american isi poate procura o arma. El ii da ca exemplu pe cei doi liceeni care au comis in 1999 masacrul de la Liceul Columbine, din Colorado, care gasisera armele in propriile lor case.
„Nu cred ca o sa putem vedea vreodata strazile Americii fara arme, astfel ca e important sa ne concentram asupra factorilor psihologici si sociologici daca vrem sa intelegem si sa prevenim fenomenul."
Un articol de Silvia Vranceanu, Andreea Romanovschi
<a href="http://www.evz.ro/article.php?artid=301201">Integral in Romania libera</a>
<a href="http://www.evz.ro/">Evenimentul Zilei</a>, 19 apr 2007
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De, Silvia Vrinceanu Nichita | 01.05.2007
<b>Focsanenii emigrati in Israel cer municipalitatii ca o strada din Focsani sa poarte numele profesorului erou din America, Liviu Librescu u dascalul care s-a sacrificat pentru propriii studenti a copilarit la Focsani in timpul Holocaustului u un focsanean caretraieste in Haifa a povestit lucruri inedite despre Liviu Librescu</b>
Focsanenii emigrati in Israel dupa cel de-al doilea razboi mondial cer Primariei Focsani sa ofere numele profesorului erou Liviu Librescu unei strazi din municipiul de pe Milcov. Dascalul israelian de orgine romana, care si-a sacrificat propria viata, pe 16 aprilie, pentru a-si salva studentii in amfiteatrul Universitatii Virginia Tech din SUA din fata unei ploi de gloante, a trait in Focsani alaturi de familia lui in perioada celui de-al doilea razboi mondial si tot aici a cunoscut-o pe cea care i-a fost alaturi toata viata, vaduva sa, Marilena. Israelianul de origine focsaneana Zvi Ben Dov, directorul general al organizatiei A.M.I.R. care militeaza pentru infintareaunui muzeu al evreimii romane, i-a trimis zilele trecute primarului din Focsani, Decebal Bacinschi, in numele fostilor focsaneni emigrati in Israel, o scrisoare in care militeaza pentru recunoasterea numelui omului de stiinta Liviu Librescu in orasul in care acesta s-a format ca om. De altfel, acestia il numesc "focsaneanul" pe Liviu Librescu. Comunitatea de focsaneni din Israel a luat decizia de a-i scrie primarului Decebal Bacinschi la funeraliile "profesorului erou". "Prof. univ. dr. Liviu Librescu a trait si a invatat la scolile din Focsani si era atasat de locurile unde a copilarit. Presa romana, americana si israeliana a publicat pe larg istoria vietii sale si exceptionalele realizari in domeniul aeronauticii si nu numai. Fapta eroica a prof. univ. Liviu Librescu a fost elogiata de Presedintele Romaniei, Traian Basescu, ca si de Presedintele USA, George Bush. Noi sugeram ca, in memoria sa, o strada din Focsani sa primeasca numele profesorului focsanean Liviu Librescu", a detaliat Zvi Ben Dov, sustinut de israelienii de origine focsaneana. Primarul Focsaniului, Decebal Bacinschi, ne-a declarat ieri ca are toata deschiderea pentru acest proiect, declarindu-se impresionat de destinul omului de stiinta plecat din Focsani. "Am citit si eu in presa povestea acestui om extraordinar. Ar trebui conceput un proiect de hotarire de Consiliu Local in acest sens. Ar trebui sa facem si niste cercetari, sa vedem cam in ce zona a orasului a locuit profesorul Liviu Librescu, pentru ca viitoarea strada sa fie pe acolo", ne-a spus primarul Decebal Bacinschi.
Amintirile unui coleg
Chiar in timpul prigoanei antisemite, regretatul profesor Liviu Librescu s-a mutat la Focsani cu familia, unde locuiau bunicii sai din partea mamei si unde tatal sau, un avocat exclus din barou pe motive etnice, a avut domiciliul fortat inainte de a fi deportat inlagarele din Transnistria. Inginerul Matei Grisaru din orasul israelian Haifa, fostul sau coleg de scoala, isi aminteste ca in acea perioada portile liceului de stat din Focsani "s-au inchis ermetic"pentru tinerii evrei. "La Liceul Evreiesc infiintat in pripa cu sprijinul Comunitatii, in afara colegilor pe care ii cunosteam de la scoala primara, a aparut unul nou. Nu ne-a trebuit mult timp pentru a afla ca in cadrul persecutiilor la care au fost supusi evreii in acele timpuri a fost si izgonirea lor din orasele considerate de importanta strategica. In felul acesta, familia Librescu a ajuns in Focsani, orasul in care locuia unchiul lui Liviu, avocatul Ianconescu, nume cunoscut de marea majoritate a locuitorilor orasului. Liviu avea pe atunci 11 ani. Integrarea lui in rindurile celorlalti elevi s-a facut aproape instantaneu. De Liviu m-am apropiat din primele zile,poate chiar din primele ore in care el a aparut in clasa. Apropierea s-a reflectat nu numai in cadrul scolii, dar ea s-a concretizat si prin vizite reciproce, prin vizionarea unor filme la care ne era permis sa mergem si, oricit ar parea poate de curios pentru virsta copiilor care eram atunci, prin controverse pe diverse teme, inclusiv cele religioase. Discutiile, incercarile de a patrunde in miezul lucrurilorpentru aflarea adevarului sint poate amintirile care, in decursul multor ani, mi-au revenit in minte cu prioritate. Cind razboiul a luat sfirsit, drumurile noastre s-au despartit", isi aminteste fostul focsanean Matei Grisaru, despre care si regretatul Liviu Librescu spunea, intr-un e-mail, ca il leaga amintiri de neuitat din anii copilariei. Inginerul Matei Grisaru spune ca inca de atunci copilul Liviu Librescu dadea semne ca va ajunge un om mare. "Dintre toate materiile cel mai mult il interesau cele cu caracter tehnic, matematica avind prioritate aproape absoluta. Il invidiam uneori pentru modul direct in care prindea, din aer as zice, explicatiileprofesorului, dar niciodata nu ezita sa explice si celor care il solicitau ceva ce ei nu intelegeau. Pe Liviu l-am mai intilnit uneori la Bucuresti, nefiind deloc mirat atunci cind am aflat ca a devenit cadru universitar in domeniul tehnic", isi aminteste fostul sau coleg de scoala. (Silvia VRINCEANU)
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A community in tears said its goodbye on Thursday from one of its members, professor Liviu Librescu, killed in the Virginia Tech massacre, helping his students flee to safety in an act of heroism.
A moving service was held for Librescu in New York, before his body left for Israel. Hours after receiving Romania's highest distinction, Librescu was also honored by president George W. Bush.
Liviu Librescu sacrificed himself blocking the door in the way of the shooter, so that students may escape through the classroom windows.
Librescu, a Holocaust survivor and a teacher for 20 years at the Virginia Tech university, remains known in the media as "the hero in room 204".
<a href="http://www.hotnews.ro/">HotNews.ro</a>, Apr 19, 2007
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Joseph (Joe) Librescu, the son of Liviu Librescu, the teacher who protected his students at the cost of his own life in the Virgina Tech killing spree yesterday, sent a heart-felt message to all Hotnews.ro readers.<br />
"I am professor Librescu's son and I want to thank all those who wrote such beautiful notes about him", the letter reads.
"Even though he left the country for a long time, he never forgot its beauty. We were supposed to meet in Predeal this summer, for a family reunion.
Once again I want to thank you for all the beautiful things you wrote about him".
Professor Liviu Librescu's gesture was widely commented on in the Romanian and international media.
First announced on the <a href="http://www.esm.vt.edu/">Virginia Tech official site</A>, the story soon reached the <a href="http://english.hotnews.ro/International-media-honors-Romanian-born-professor-killed-in-Virginia-massacre-articol_44738.htm"">HotNews.ro English version</A>, and was quoted by the blogs at the <a href="http://www.claremont.org/blogs/blogid.5193/blog_detail.asp">Claremont Institute for the Study of Statemanship and Political Philosphy</A>.
An <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/17/AR2007041700626.html?nav=hcmodule">Associated Press</A> article was almost instantly quoted by all international media. <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech.shooting.victims/index.html">CNN</A>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1665503.ece">The Times</A>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/us/17victims.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">The New York Times</A> and <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/849070.html">Haaretz</A> are just a few of the TV stations and newspapers that brought an hommage to the lost professor.
Romanian media ware just as present as the international ones:<br />
"Romanian hero in mourning America", <a href="http://www.evz.ro/">Evenimentul Zilei</A> reads on the first page; "The Hero", is the simple and powerful title in <a href="http://www.jurnalul.ro/articol_76983/eroul.html">Jurnalul National</A>. "Romanian hero at Virginia Tech", reads <a href="http://www.cotidianul.ro/">Cotidianul</A>. "Romania origin hero", is the headline in <a href="http://www.romanialibera.ro/a92706/un-erou-originar-din-romania.html">Romania Libera</A> and so on.
<a href="http://www.hotnews.ro/">HotNews.ro</a>, Apr 18, 2007
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32 de colegi ai noştri, studenţi şi profesori, au fost ucişi într-o tragedie fără sens care a zguduit America şi lumea întreagă.
Noi, cei 37.000 de studenţi şi profesori ai Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iaşi, împărtăşim durerea şi revolta în faţa unui act de neînţeles. Este dificil să reacţionezi în faţa provocărilor absurde ale violenţei, mai ales atunci cînd universitatea ştie să lupte doar pentru cunoaştere şi o viaţă mai bună în comunitate.
Îi plângem şi noi pe cei care acum şi-au pierdut viaţa în campusul Universităţii Virginia Tech, printre care şi pe profesorul de origine română, Liviu Librescu. Cu gândul la ei şi la tinerii de pretutindeni, nu putem decât să ne continuăm misiunea de a lumina minţile omeneşti prin ştiinţă, pentru că sîntem convişi că acesta este singurul mod în care putem inventa împreună un viitor mai bun.
32 of our colleagues, students and teachers, were killed in a senseless tragedy that horrified America and the entire world. Here, at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of IaÅŸi, the 37.000 students and teachers share the grief and anger in front of such irrational and unfair act. It is difficult to find the right reaction to the absurd challenges of violence, especially since the university's only fight is for knowledge ad a better life for the community.
We too mourn the lives lost in the campus of Viriginia Tech University, among which that of the Romanian professor Liviu Librescu. Thinking of them and the students everywhere, we can only carry on our mission of sheding light upon human minds through science, for we are convinced that this is the only way to invent a better future.
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De, Silvia Vrinceanu Nichita | 21.04.2007
<b>Focsaneanul Zvi Ben Dov, emigrat in Israel in urma cu jumatate de secol, ne-a transmis ieri amanunte despre funeraliile profesorului Liviu Librescu</b>
Liviu Librescu, profesorul care si-a salvat studentii din fata unei ploi de gloante sacrificindu-si propria viata in amfiteatrul Universitatii Tehnice din Virginia, a fost condus ieri pe ultimul drum, in Israel, tara in care locuiesc si cei doi fii ai sai. La funeralii au fost prezenti si citiva focsaneni israelieni, care au copilarit cu profesorul Liviu Librescu in perioada celui de-al doilea razboi mondial, cind au fost nevoiti sa indure ostilitatea dusa pina la extrem fata de populatia de origine evreiasca. "Am participat impreuna cu prietenul meu focsanean Jack Gheber la mormintarea lui Liviu. Au fost sute si sute de oameni, rude, prieteni, profesori de la universitate, plus o delegatie special venita din Romania, in frunte cu ambasadorul Romaniei in Israel, pentru a inmina familiei ordinul national «Steaua Romaniei» in grad de mare cruce, oferit post-mortem de presedintele Traian Basescu pentru eroismul de care a dat dovada. Impreuna cu Jack, ne-am dus la Marilena, sotia lui Liviu, si ea tot din Focsani, si am consolat-o. Eu i-am inminat «Ziarul de Vrancea», care a sosit in Israel in urma cu doua zile, adus de prietenul nostru Nicu Stoinescu. I-am transmis condoleante de la grupul vostru din Focsani", ne-a transmis ieri, prin e-mail, Zvi Ben Dov, liderul focsanenilor din Israel, directorul general al organizatiei A.M.I.R. Acesta si-a ebraizat numele dupa ce a emigrat, in Focsani fiind cunoscut sub numele de Puiu Zilberman. De precizat ca Zvi Ben Dov si Jack Gheber au fost colegi cu Liviu Librescu la Focsani, inainte de a emigra in Israel.
"Mama lui Jack a fost directoarea scolii evreiesti de fete din Focsani, unde a studiat si Marilena, sotia lui Liviu. L-a recunoscut si pe Jack si pe mine imediat. La funeralii am intilnit si alti prieteni focsaneni, pe dr. Fritz Scwartz, pe ing. Armand Rotenstraih cu sora lui Emilia si altii", ne-a mai relatat Zvi Ben Dov. Focsanenii care locuiesc in Israel ne-au spus ca la inmormintarea profesorului Liviu Librescu au participat zeci de jurnalisti din toata lumea, care au fost interesati de viata pe care "eroul din America" a dus-o in Romania, ca victima a regimurilor Mihai Antonescu si Nicolae Ceausescu. Reamintim ca "Ziarul de Vrancea" a relatat in exclusivitate povestea de viata a "eroului din America", care a trait din plin opresiunile antisemite la Focsani, in timpul celui de-al doilea razboi mondial, unde locuiau bunicii din partea mamei. Tot in orasul de pe Milcov, tatal profesorului Liviu Librescu, un avocat eliminat din barou pe criterii etnice, a avut domiciliu fortat inainte sa fie trimis in lagarele din Transnistria. Liviu Librescu fusese invitat sa viziteze Focsaniul in luna mai, invitatie pe care a declinat-o cu parere de rau din cauza proiectelor stiintifice in care era implicat. Sotia profesorului a anuntat ca nu se va mai intoarce in America si a multumit tuturor celor care au fost alaturi de familie in aceste momente grele. (Silvia VRINCEANU)
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Un roman admirat in toata lumea
<b>Liviu Librescu, profesorul de eroism</b>
A supravietuit Holocaustului si comunismului, dar l-a ucis un student. Presa internationala scrie pe larg despre profesorul israelian de origine romana Liviu Librescu, care a murit salvandu-si studentii in timpul masacrului din campusul Universitatii Tehnice din Virginia. Profesor de peste 20 de ani in SUA, Librescu a murit in timp ce bloca usa de acces in sala de curs, pentru ca studentii sa poata fugi de atacator. Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti (UPB) a declarat marti - zi de doliu in memoria profesorului Liviu Librescu, fost absolvent al Facultatii de Inginerie Aerospatiala.
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Moartea lui Librescu si a colegului sau, Profesorul Kevin Granata, a fost anuntata prima data pe <a href="http://www.esm.vt.edu/" TARGET="_blank">site-ul oficial</A> al institutiei.
<a href="http://english.hotnews.ro/International-media-honors-Romanian-born-professor-killed-in-Virginia-massacre-articol_44738.htm" TARGET="_blank">Articolul postat in versiunea engleza a HotNews.ro</A>, despre moartea lui Liviu Librescu, a fost preluat pe blogurile <a href="http://www.claremont.org/blogs/blogid.5193/blog_detail.asp" TARGET="_blank">Claremont Institute for the Study of Statemanship and Political Philosphy</A>.
Un material dedicat de <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/17/AR2007041700626.html?nav=hcmodule" TARGET="_blank">Associated Press</A> lui Liviu Librescu a fost preluat de sute de publicatii din intreaga lume.
Articolul povesteste cum familia lui Librescu a primit e-mailuri de consolare de la studentii acestuia, care au povestit despre modul cum s-a jertfit pentru studenti.
<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech.shooting.victims/index.html" TARGET="_blank">CNN</A>, <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article1665503.ece" TARGET="_blank">The Times</A>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/17/us/17victims.html?_r=1&oref=slogin" TARGET="_blank">The New York Times</A> si <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/849070.html" TARGET="_blank">Haaretz</A> se numara printre multele publicatii si televiziuni care au relatat pe larg despre cum i-a aparat Librescu pe studenti cu pretul propriei sale vieti.
Pe <a href="http://www.esm.vt.edu/" TARGET="_blank">site-ul oficial</A> al Universitatii Tehnice din Virginia, a fost anuntat decesul a doi dintre dascalii universitatii: Profesor Liviu Librescu si Profesor Kevin Granata, morti pe data de 16 aprilie 2007, in timp ce isi tineau cursurile in cladirea Norris Hall de la Universitatea Virginia Tech.
Potrivit "The Jerusalem Post" online, profesorul, in varsta de 77 de ani, a murit impuscat, iar site-ul ynetnews.com scrie ca profesorul a fost ucis in timp ce bloca accesul atacatorului in sala de curs, pentru a-si apara studentii.
Alec Calhoun, o studenta aflata in sala de curs in momentul atacului, a povestit pentru Associated Press ca l-a vazut pe profesorul Librescu blocand usa in timp ce unii dintre colegii ei se ascundeau, iar altii sareau pe geam.
Profesorul fusese condus la scoala de sotia sa, cu mai putin de o ora inainte de a fi impuscat.
Potrivit sursei citate, sotia sa Marlina si copii, Arieh si Joe, au inceput deja sa faca pregatirile pentru inmormantarea lui Liviu Librescu in Israel.
Nora sa, Ayala, povesteste ca profesorul era foarte pasionat de meseria sa si un om dedicat familiei.
Colegii de la Universitatea Tehnica din Virginia il descriu drept "un adevarat gentleman".
In incident, cel putin 33 de persoane au fost ucise si 28 au fost ranite dupa ce un student a deschis focul in interiorul campusului din Blacksburg.
<B>Cine este profesorul Librescu</B>
Profesor israelian de origine romana, Liviu Librescu a absolvit Facultatea Politehnica din Bucuresti in anul 1952, specializarea inginerie aeronautica si apoi s-a inscris la masterat.
In 1972, primeste premiul "Traian Vuia" al Academiei de Stiinte din Romania.
Intre anii 1979-1986 a fost profesor de inginerie mecanica la Universitatea din Tel Aviv.
Potrivit ynetnews.com, profesorul Librescu si sotia sa sunt supravietuitori ai Holocaustului care au emigrat in Israel din Romania in 1978.
Regimul comunist nu i-a dat voie sa plece din tara, dar a reusit acest lucru numai dupa ce premierul israelian de atunci, Menachem Begin a intervenit pe langa Nicolae Ceausescu.
Cativa ani mai tarziu a plecat in SUA. Din iunie 1986 preda ingineria mecanica la Universitatea Tehnica din Virginia, unde era titularul a patru cursuri.
In anul 2000 primeste titlu de Doctor Honoris Causa al Universitatii Politehnice din Bucuresti.
A publicat numeroase articole si studii de inginerie mecanica in presa americana, a obtinut zeci de premii si titluri onorifice si a prezidat mai multe congrese internationale pe acesta tema.
<b> Zi de doliu la Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti</b>
Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti (UPB) a declarat, marti, zi de doliu in memoria profesorului Liviu Librescu, absolvent al Facultatii de Inginerie Aerospatiala.
Rectorul UPB, Ecaterina Andronescu, s-a declarat consternata de incidentul petrecut in campusul universirat din Virginia, Statele Unite, si a declarat ca va pastra poza lui Liviu Librescu in holul rectoratulului pentru a-i aduce un ultim omagiu acestuia.
"Ne-am hotarat sa transmitem un mesaj de solidaritate, incurajare si de sustinere la Universitatea Virginia Tech si am declarat zi de doliu in universitate. Liviu Librescu este membru al comunitatii noastre academice, cu atat mai mult ca in anul 2000, domnul profesor a primit titul de Doctor Honoris Causa al UPB", a declarat Ecaterina Andronescu pentru HotNews.ro.
„Prin curajul de care a dat dovada, Liviu Librescu a adus o mare onoare atat Universitatii Politehnice, cat si intregii scoli romanesti" a precizat Andronescu.
<a href="http://www.hotnews.ro/">HotNews.ro</a>, C.N.A., C. Marin, 17 apr 2007
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