1 20 56 https://april16archive.org/files/original/2419173367_572717e4ee_b_b39eb36297.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-05-02 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2008-05-02 17:01:46 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kacey Beddoes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brian Sewell Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-05-02 Description An account of the resource Memorial stone of Liviu Librescu on 4/16/08. Photo by Brian Sewell. -- Original Source: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/briansewell/2419173367/in/set-72157604577382666/">http://flickr.com/photos/briansewell/2419173367/in/set-72157604577382666/</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Brian Sewell <bwsewell@vt.edu> Title A name given to the resource Librescu memorial anniversary librescu memorial stone https://april16archive.org/files/original/028(2) Liviu Librescu_da1af56004.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-04-21 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2008-04-21 16:52:43 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kacey Beddoes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Teri H. Hoover Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-04-21 Description An account of the resource Items left at the memorial plaque of Liviu Librescu on the drillfield. Photo taken on 5-1-07. Photo by Teri H. Hoover. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Teri H. Hoover <crystalirisphotos@gmail.com> Title A name given to the resource Liviu Librescu Drillfield librescu memorial https://april16archive.org/files/original/100_0228_eac7155ced.JPG null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-04-09 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2008-04-09 08:12:46 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Kacey Beddoes Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Kacey Beddoes Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-04-09 Description An account of the resource This wood carving was one of four items hanging outside of the Perspective Gallery in Squires. It was created by an artist from Dickerson County, Virginia to honor Professor Librescu. It is made from the same kind of curly maple used for Gibson Guitars. Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Kacey Beddoes (kbeddoes@vt.edu) Title A name given to the resource Librescu remembered librescu perspective gallery squires wood carving https://april16archive.org/files/original/DSC_0042_df93a6b157.JPG null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-02-28 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2008-02-28 19:56:21 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Robyn Hudson Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robyn Hudson Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2008-02-28 Description An account of the resource I was a liason to an injured student in Dr. Librescu&#39;s class. She was injured from the jump out of the window, not a bullet. The student and her family believe that Dr. Librescu&#39;s actions saved her life. Her aunt was the artist. Her aunt also created a portrait of a deceased victim who lived near her. Dr. Librescu&#39;s portrait was given to me following the graduation ceremony that this student was able to walk in. I passed it on to the family liason for the Librescu family and it was well recieved by his survivors. Language A language of the resource eng Title A name given to the resource Portrait of Dr. Librescu art librescu liviu librescu portrait Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource La Raza Newspaper Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-14 Description An account of the resource Identifican al agresor como un estudiante de Corea del Sur. Publicado por Diario la Raza 04-18-2007 Washington, D.C. — La policía de EE.UU. identificó como el autor de la matanza en la universidad <b>virginia tech</b> al estudiante surcoreano Cho Seung Hui, de 23 años, un joven descrito como "solitario" y cuyos escritos habían suscitado preocupación entre sus profesores. Hasta el momento se desconocen los motivos que llevaron a Cho, quien vivía en EU desde los 8 años y estudiaba filología inglesa, a matar a 32 personas, entre profesores y estudiantes —al menos dos latinoamericanos— y suicidarse. Una de sus profesoras recordaba ayer a la prensa el tono perturbador de algunos de sus ejercicios literarios, hasta el punto de que sus instructores le aconsejaron recibir ayuda psicológica. Según el diario Chicago Tribune, el asesino dejó una nota en su habitación en la que clamaba contra los "niños ricos", "la decadencia" y los "embusteros charlatanes" en el campus y asegura: "Me obligaste a hacerlo". Al parecer, según la cadena CNN, Cho compró una pistola Glock el mes pasado en una tienda de Roanoke, una ciudad vecina, y pagó por ella 571 dólares con un cheque. La matanza se produjo en dos fases: en un primer tiroteo murieron dos personas, un hombre y una mujer, en una residencia de estudiantes; y el segundo, en el que murió el resto, tuvo lugar dos horas más tarde, en las aulas de la Facultad de Ingeniería. Las autoridades han confirmado que las armas empleadas en la matanza fueron al menos dos pistolas y que una de ellas se usó en los dos tiroteos. "La evidencia no nos ha conducido a decir categóricamente que el mismo autor estuvo implicado en los dos tiroteos", pero "es ciertamente razonable suponer que Cho fue el autor en los dos incidentes", indicó el superintendente de la Policía de Virginia, Steven Flaherty. Entre los fallecidos se encuentran profesores y estudiantes. La lista completa no se ha dado a conocer pero sí han salido a la luz los nombres de un grupo de víctimas. Entre ellos se encuentra el peruano Daniel Pérez Cuevas, muerto mientras asistía a una clase de francés y quien había iniciado sus estudios universitarios en Miami pero se cambió a <b>virginia tech</b>, por su mayor prestigio académico. También está el puertorriqueño Juan Ramón Ortiz, de 26 años, y que cursaba su primer año de maestría en la universidad, donde se había matriculado junto a su esposa, Liselle Vega, con quien llevaba casado un año. El gobierno de EU afirmó ayer que está dispuesto a ofrecer la ayuda que sea necesaria para los extranjeros que hayan sido víctimas de la masacre en la Universidad Politécnica de Virginia el lunes. Según han contado los supervivientes, el asesino cerró varias salidas del edificio con cadenas y candados, y después fue vaciando sus cargadores, aula por aula. La primera clase, y donde al parecer se han registrado más víctimas, fue una de alemán, en la que el asesino disparó a la cabeza del profesor Chris Bishop antes de abrir fuego sobre los alumnos. En otras aulas algunos alumnos huyeron por las ventanas. Otros intentaron bloquear las puertas con sus cuerpos, en algunos casos con resultado fatal. Ese fue el caso del profesor Liviu Librescu, que fue alcanzado por disparos a través de la puerta mientras impedía el paso al agresor y lograba así salvar a sus alumnos. Doce estudiantes de la universidad se recuperan de sus heridas y permanecen estables en distintos hospitales de la zona de Blackburg, donde se encuentra el centro docente. La matanza ha conmovido a todo el país y ha suscitado reacciones de condolencia en todo el mundo. El presidente de EU, George W. Bush, aseguró ayer que se trata de un "día de tristeza para todo el país" e instó a los estudiantes a no dejarse llevar por la ira, en un acto de homenaje a las víctimas en el polideportivo de la universidad. Bush ordenó que las banderas estadounidenses ondeen a media asta en señal de duelo hasta el domingo. El incidente ha comenzado a suscitar ya las primeras críticas sobre la reacción de las autoridades tanto policiales como universitarias. Muchos estudiantes han censurado que, tras el primer incidente, no se suspendieran las clases ni se diera un aviso de peligro hasta dos horas después, y eso sólo a través de un correo electrónico. La matanza ha vuelto a reabrir el debate sobre la regulación de la tenencia de armas en Estados Unidos, un país en el que las leyes sobre el control de armas de fuego son muy laxas. EFE -- Fuente Original: Diario La Raza - Chicago <a href="http://www.laraza.com/news.php?nid=43338&clave=a%3A1%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A13%3A%22virginia+tech%22%3B%7D">http://www.laraza.com/news.php?nid=43338&clave=a%3A1%3A%7Bi%3A0%3Bs%3A13%3A%22virginia+tech%22%3B%7D</a> Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Jorge Mederos Executive Editor La Raza Chicago Inc. jorge.mederos@laraza.com August 13, 2007 Title A name given to the resource Luto en el país por matanza en Virginia bishop bush cho flaherty librescu ortiz pérez vega Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource María Luisa Azpiazu Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-13 Description An account of the resource Actividades en honor a los fallecidos marcan el regreso a virginia tech Publicado por María Luisa Azpiazu EFE 04-24-2007 Washington, D.C — Mucho dolor, impresionantes minutos de silencio y 32 campanadas en memoria de las víctimas de la peor matanza de la historia estudiantil de E.U. marcaron ayer el regreso a clase de los alumnos de la Universidad Politécnica de Virginia. Fueron miles los alumnos que regresaron ayer para rendir tributo a sus compañeros y profesores fallecidos. Justo una semana antes, Cho Seung-Hui, un estudiante coreano de 23 años, decidió cambiar el ritmo devida en esta Universidad del sur del estado de Virginia y mató a 32 personas. Las solemnes conmemoraciones comenzaron muy pronto. El primer minuto de silencio se guardó a las 7:10 de la mañana en el edificio en el que Cho cobró sus dos primeras víctimas. Algo más de dos horas después, la gran concentración se llevó a cabo en el campus central, donde los estudiantes colocaron miles de recuerdos, flores, velas y escritos en recuerdo de las víctimas. Entre los objetos, alguien puso una bandera de Perú y otra de Israel en memoria de dos de las víctimas, el estudiante peruano Daniel Pérez Cuevas y el profesor Liviu Librescu, quien, según testigos, bloqueó con su cuerpo la entrada a su clase del agresor y salvó la vida de varios de sus alumnos, aunque perdió la suya. La mañana fue brillante, soleada y cálida, lo que contribuyó a que el acto fuera aún más solemne. Los estudiantes portaron 33 banderas blancas que representaban tanto a las víctimas como al agresor. Una pequeña banda de música interpretó el himno "America the Beautiful" cerca del lugar donde se había instalado un semicírculo con 33 piedras en recuerdo de los fallecidos. Junto a la piedra del agresor, alguien colocó una carta en la que se asegura que este joven "subestimó nuestra fuerza, coraje y compasión" y en la que se asegura que "rompiste nuestros corazones pero no nuestros espíritus". Este es el resumen de un convencimiento que impera en esta Universidad, decidida a superar el gran trauma. "Tenemos que seguir adelante", aseguran desde las página del "Collegiate Times", el periódico universitario. que ha jugado un papel fundamental tanto en la ayuda a los estudiantes como en la información en los momentos posteriores de la tragedia. La consigna es clara- "Vamos Hokies¡¡", que es el nombre con el que se denominan los estudiantes de esta Universidad. Alumnos, familiares y profesores, escucharon, en medio de un gran recogimiento, las 32 campanadas. Una por cada una de las víctimas. Terminada la letanía, los estudiantes lanzaron 32 globos blancos al cielo seguidos de otros mil de colores naranja y marrón, la enseña de la Universidad. Muchos, todavía, no podían contener las lágrimas y, en declaraciones a medios locales, aseguran que aún no saben si volverán a la Universidad o darán el curso por terminado ya, dos semanas antes de lo previsto. La Universidad permitirá a todo aquel que no quiera volver a las clases repetir el semestre o quedarse con las notas que tenía hasta el momento.Para los que decidan volver, la Universidad tiene una batería de psicólogos que a ayudará a superar el trauma. Se están poniendo en marcha igualmente imaginativas terapias, como la que ha llevado a la Cruz Roja a llevar a este campus decenas de perros amaestrados para ser especialmente cariñosos, que acompañarán a los estudiantes. Se trata, en definitiva, de ofrecer calma y paz para evitar más episodios tristes como el vivido el fin de semana por la familia Soriano. Su hijo Jeff, un estudiante de Virginia Tech que había sobrevivido a la tragedia, se mató en la carretera el viernes, poco antes de llegar a su casa, en Norfolk (Virginia). Su padre, Enrique Soriano, asegura que su hijo es "la víctima número 33" de la tragedia. EFE -- Fuente Original: Diario La Raza - Chicago <a href="http://www.laraza.com/news.php?nid=43429&pag=0">http://www.laraza.com/news.php?nid=43429&pag=0</a> Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Jorge Mederos Executive Editor La Raza Chicago Inc. jorge.mederos@laraza.com August, 13 2007 Title A name given to the resource Solemnes momentos de recordación vamos hokies collegiate times librescu perez recuerdos regreso a clases soriano https://april16archive.org/files/original/funeralisraelmothersonvirginiatech_192c83bd8d.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-12 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-12 22:34:26 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Brent Jesiek Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource INA / Andy Princz Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-12 Description An account of the resource Photo: INA / Andy Princz Liviu Librescu&#39;s wife Marilena is comforted by their son Arie, while son Joe stands to the left, at Librescu&#39;s April 20 funeral in Israel. Librescu&#39;s body was buried at the Kfar Nachman cemetery of the central Israel town of Ra&#39;anana. -- Original Source: Israel News Agency <a href="http://www.israelnewsagency.com/liviulibrescuvirginiatechherofuneralisraelholocaust48042107.html">http://www.israelnewsagency.com/liviulibrescuvirginiatechherofuneralisraelholocaust48042107.html</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Joel Leyden, Publisher; israelnewsagency@gmail.com funeral israel librescu https://april16archive.org/files/original/librescusonsariejoeisraelfuneral_6107a181a3.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-12 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-12 22:26:29 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Brent Jesiek Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource INA / Andy Princz Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-12 Description An account of the resource Photo: INA / Andy Princz Liviu Librescu&#39;s sons Arie and Joe at their father&#39;s funeral, which was held in Israel on Friday, April 20. The funeral was attended by some 500 friends, family members, foreign diplomats and others who came to the Kfar Nachman cemetery of the central Israel town of Ra&#39;anana to pay their respects to this Jewish hero. Joe&#39;s ripped black shirt reflects a Jewish custom of mourning a relative. -- Original Source: Israel News Agency <a href="http://www.israelnewsagency.com/liviulibrescuvirginiatechherofuneralisraelholocaust48042107.html">http://www.israelnewsagency.com/liviulibrescuvirginiatechherofuneralisraelholocaust48042107.html</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Joel Leyden, Publisher; israelnewsagency@gmail.com funeral israel librescu https://april16archive.org/files/original/funeralvirginiatechprofessorisrael_7f397b1faa.jpg null Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-12 Omeka Legacy File The metadata element set that, in addition to the Dublin Core element set, was included in the `files` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all Omeka files. This set may be deprecated in future versions. Capture Date 2007-08-12 22:13:31 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Adriana Seagle Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource INA / Andy Princz Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-12 Description An account of the resource Photo: INA / Andy Princz The body of Liviu Librescu, wrapped in a white and black prayer shawl according to Jewish tradition, shown prior to his April 20 funeral in Israel. Librescu will be buried at the Kfar Nachman cemetery of the central Israel town of Ra&#39;anana. -- Original Source: Israel News Agency <a href="http://www.israelnewsagency.com/liviulibrescuvirginiatechherofuneralisraelholocaust48042107.html">http://www.israelnewsagency.com/liviulibrescuvirginiatechherofuneralisraelholocaust48042107.html</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Joel Leyden, Publisher; israelnewsagency@gmail.com body funeral israel librescu Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Adriana Seagle Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Joel Leyden Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-12 Description An account of the resource <b>By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency</b> Jerusalem ----April 21...... "Daddy, tell me the story again," said the 6-year-old girl. "Tell me how he saved the big children." It had been hours earlier in this pristine, palm tree lined Ra&#39;anana cemetery that hundreds stood mourning and praising Holocaust survivor and Virginia Tech hero for sacrificing his life so that his students would live. "He was a good man," said Amanda. "Will he come back to life now?" she asked. It was this young girl&#39;s first trip to a cemetery. I explained to her that in life we are born in hospitals, live our lives and then we are buried in cemeteries. "We will all be buried in a cemetery, but some people die from old age, others from diseases, but this man - he was a hero. He was buried here because he gave life to the big children in Virginia," I told her. A link to exclusive <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi1GMAz7DSs">INA video of the Liviu Librescu funeral in Ra&#39;anana appears here</a> I had promised my daughter when picking her up from her mother&#39;s home that we were going to visit a real hero. Heroes come and go. Moshe Dayan is credited for many acts of bravery, including opening up the City of Jerusalem with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967. David Ben-Gurion had the wisdom and leadership to win Israel&#39;s battle for independence, creating the modern Jewish state of Israel. But Dayan and Ben-Gurion, who became myths larger than life, had also been criticized. Ben-Gurion for attacking an Irgun ship - the Altalena and Dayan for stealing and selling archaeological treasures from Israel soil. They had both been in the public spotlight for many years. Their achievements were many. Their faults were few but still they were mere mortals. But Liviu Librescu was a hero with no baggage. He had survived the Nazi holocaust, he had survived persecution in communist Romania. Only to find peace and tranquility teaching in the hills of Virginia - until last Monday. In a remarkable act of sacrifice and bravery, the 75-year-old Israel professor and Holocaust survivor was murdered in the massacre at Virginia Tech on Holocaust Memorial Day, when he leaped between the crazed gunner and his students. According to eye witnesses the heroic action of Liviu Librescu, a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, saved the lives of an unknown number of students in his class. Asael Arad, an Israeli Virginia Tech student told Israel Army Radio that "all the students lived - because of him." The last person to see Professor Liviu Librescu alive appears to have been Alec Calhoun, a student at Virginia Tech who turned as he prepared to leap from a high classroom window to see the elderly academic holding shut the classroom door. The student jumped, and lived. Minutes later, the professor was shot dead. The professor was popular among students and colleagues alike, and his ultimate sacrifice on Monday will cement that reputation. The last stop on Cho Seung-Hui&#39;s killing spree was Librescu&#39;s classroom. The professor blocked the unlockable door with his body to hold out Cho while shouting for his students to escape through the classroom windows. Cho overpowered Librescu, pushed his way into the room and shot the professor in the head. All of his students survived. Librescu&#39;s wife told the <i>NRG</i> Web site that her husband had loved his job with "all his heart and his soul." Librescu was a gifted scientist in Romania, and the government tried to prevent him from moving to Israel. He was eventually allowed to leave the country after then Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin made a special appeal to President Nicolae Ceausescu, <i>Ynetnews</i> reported. Librescu immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1978 but moved to Virginia in 1986 for his sabbatical and had remained their ever since. The professor has two sons, one named Arieh who lives in Israel, and another, Joe, who resides in the US. Librescu was described by his colleagues as a "true gentleman." He was one of 33 people murdered in what has been described as the biggest single shooting attack in US history. They all had died in the rampage, including the gunman, 23-year-old student Cho Seung-Hui from South Korea, who committed suicide. Cho, who had sent a package to NBC News between the first and second shooting attacks at Virginia Tech, stated in a manifesto that he hated rich people and warned that he would get even. These facts emerged from a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the case. Late Wednesday, MSNBC showed a photo from the package of Cho glaring at the camera, his arms outstretched with a gun in each hand. He wears a khaki-colored military-style vest, fingerless gloves and a backwards, black baseball cap. Virginia Tech reported shootings on two sides of the 2,600-acre campus, the first at about 7:15 a.m. at a co-ed residential hall called West Ambler Johnston, and resuming about two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building. According to students, at around 7:15 a.m. the gunman appeared in West Ambler Johnston and began searching rooms for his ex-girlfriend. He killed two people, Ryan Clark, and a freshman identified by students as Emily Hilscher. In the second attack, the gunman shot professors and students in classrooms and hallways of the engineering building, killing around 30 people. The carnage ended Monday with the gunman shooting himself in the face. Students complained that the university did not adequately warn them about the gunman until over two hours after the first incident and around the time that the second round of killings began. At that time, an e-mail was sent. Virginia Tech President Charles Steger defended the university, saying authorities believed the shooting at the dorm was a domestic clash and an isolated incident. They also mistakenly thought the gunman had left the campus. "We had no reason to suspect any other incident was going to occur," Steger said. He added, "We can only make decisions based on the information you had on the time. You don&#39;t have hours to reflect on it." Steger explained that it was difficult to inform everyone at Virginia Tech because there were thousands of people arriving to the campus on Monday morning. As controversy continues to grow regarding the apparent lack of proper security response to the first shooting, and why with a shooting suspect loose, was there no shut down of the Virginia Tech campus, many have started to heal their wounds, leaving the anger stage and moving onto grief. Now focusing on the positive aspects of humanity, the acts of courage and bravery which occurred during this bloody massacre. In his speech at the United State Holocaust Memorial, US President George W. Bush paid tribute to Liviu Librescu, the aeronautics engineering professor who died while trying to save students during the shooting spree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. "That day we saw horror, but we also saw acts of quiet courage. 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 might live. And this morning we honor his memory, and we take strength from his example." President Bush said. Liviu Librescu&#39;s body was transported to Israel last Wednesday, to be buried at the Kfar Nachman cemetery of the central Israel town of Ra&#39;anana. Marilena, his wife, also flew also from New York Wednesday arrived in Tel Aviv Thursday, 37-year-old son Arieh told Deutsche Presse-Agentur in a telephone interview. The funeral was attended by some 500 friends, family members, foreign diplomats and others who came to this Israel cemetery to pay their respects to this Jewish hero. The funeral was to begin at 10 a.m. on a clear, sun drenched day. Speaking at the ceremony, Librescu&#39;s son Joe wearing a ripped black shirt, reflected on the questions he had never asked his father. It is Jewish custom to rip a part of your clothes when mourning a relative. "They&#39;re asking me today about your past, and I don&#39;t know what to tell them," he said. "I&#39;m proud of you. I walk today with my head held high." "Sometimes I didn&#39;t hear you, but my ears are now wide open to your legacy," he went on. "I&#39;m doing my best, reaching to the moon - I know I can reach it because of you." Librescu&#39;s wife, Marlena, had lost any remnants of composure. She spoke to her husband Liviu who was wrapped in a white and black prayer shawl according to Jewish tradition. "My sweetheart, I am in such pain. So much pain. I have lost not just a husband, but my best friend," she said. "I was blessed to be with him each day for 42 years - to learn from his wisdom, to receive his advice - and I thank you for giving me our two children. I&#39;m now blessed to be with them," said Marlena. "It&#39;s so painful for me to think of your last moments, in which you suffered. I&#39;ll never know what went through your mind, but I hope very much that wherever you are, you will watch over your family," Librescu&#39;s weeping wife, Marlena, said. "I ask forgiveness from you for every time I upset you. I hope you will protect your family from where you reside now," she said, adding, "I have only the good left from you.... May it go easy for you, my sweetheart." The professor&#39;s other son, Arie, said his father had "always said to be strong." "Father, I believe that at this moment you&#39;re looking down on us from above and saying, what is all this crowing around? I only did what I had to do. From our childhood, you taught us to care for people, to work hard, to succeed, but you never taught us to be heroes. It is more theoretical a lesson than aerodynamics," he said. "A hero must have the right combination of certain attributes, and you had them." According to Arie, his father "used every spare minute to do what he loved." Speaking of his father&#39;s teaching, Librescu said that "the courses in aerodynamics have ended. On the 16th of the month, you started a new career, teaching a new subject - heroism - which millions of students are learning." Arie thanked family, friends and neighbors in Israel and around the world for all they had done for the family - and particularly for his mother - in their time of loss. He added special thanks for "a righteous man, an organization, Chabad, someone who drove five hours to mother [the day of the shooting] and made sure the body would come to Israel as soon as possible." Rabbi Danny Cohen, a Chabad representative in Hebron and a close friend of Arie, said at the funeral that "Librescu&#39;s last act lit a fire of unity throughout the world. This evening, tens of thousands of Jewish women will light Shabbat candles at the special request of Marlena." Librescu&#39;s wife stated that lighting Shabbat candles was his favorite mitzvah. Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Arie said his mother would now move to back Israel once she has completed the arrangements in the US. Gheorghe Angelescu, adviser to the president of Romania, presented Marlena Librescu at the funeral with the Grand Cross of Romania - the country&#39;s highest civilian honor, which was previously granted to the prime ministers of France and Italy. Librescu was given the award for his scientific achievements and the heroism surrounding his death. According to Angelescu, Librescu "was a very important scientist - not just for Israel or Romania, but for the world." Liviu Librescu was murdered on Holocaust Memorial Day and buried on Hitler&#39;s birthday. It appears that his act of bravery has reinforced one day and has overshadowed the other. A child in Nazi-allied Romania during Second World War, Librescu was deported along with his family to a labour camp in Transnistria and then to a central ghetto in the city of Focsani, his son said. According to a report compiled by the Romanian government in 2004, between 280,000 and 380,000 Jews were killed by the Romanian regime during the war. Librescu later worked as an engineer at Romania&#39;s aerospace agency under the postwar Communist government, his son recounted, but his career was stymied in the 1970s because he refused to swear allegiance to the regime. He was later fired when he requested permission to move to Israel. After years of government refusal, according to his son, Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened to get the family emigration permits. They moved to Israel in 1978. The family left Israel in 1985 for Virginia, where Librescu took a position teaching mathematics and engineering at Virginia Tech. "Daddy, who is worse, Hezbollah or Cho," my daughter asked as we stood over Liviu Librescu&#39;s grave. A small white sign bearing Librescu&#39;s name in Hebrew stood next to earth which was decorated with several colorful wreaths and flowers. "They are both bad. But today we are here to say thank you to a hero." My small daughter picked up a small white stone from a basket sitting next to the grave. She placed the stone on the freshly packed brown dirt. "Goodbye professor teacher who saved us. Goodbye." -- Original Source: Israel News Agency <a href="http://www.israelnewsagency.com/liviulibrescuvirginiatechherofuneralisraelholocaust48042107.html">http://www.israelnewsagency.com/liviulibrescuvirginiatechherofuneralisraelholocaust48042107.html</a> Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Joel Leyden; israelnewsagency@gmail.com Title A name given to the resource Tears, Pride for Holocaust Survivor, Virginia Tech Librescu At Israel Funeral funeral hero israel librescu victim Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Adriana Seagle Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Joel Leyden Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-12 Description An account of the resource <b>By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency</b> Jerusalem ----April 19...... In a remarkable act of sacrifice and bravery, a 75-year-old Israel professor and Holocaust survivor was murdered in the massacre at Virginia Tech on Holocaust Memorial Day, Monday when he leaped between the crazed gunner and his students. According to eye witnesses the heroic action of Liviu Librescu, a lecturer in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, saved the lives of an unknown number of students in his class. Asael Arad, an Israeli Virginia Tech student told Israel Army Radio that "all the students lived - because of him,". The last person to see Professor Liviu Librescu alive appears to have been Alec Calhoun, a student at Virginia Tech who turned as he prepared to leap from a high classroom window to see the elderly academic holding shut the classroom door. The student jumped, and lived. Minutes later, the professor was shot dead. Librescu&#39;s wife told the NRG Web site that her husband had loved his job with "all his heart and his soul." Librescu was a gifted scientist in Romania, and the government tried to prevent him from moving to Israel. He was eventually allowed to leave the country after then Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin made a special appeal to President Nicolae Ceausescu, Ynetnews reported. Librescu immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1978 but moved to Virginia in 1986 for his sabbatical and had remained their ever since. The professor has two sons, one named Arieh who lives in Israel, and another, Joe, who resides in the US. Librescu was described by his colleagues as a "true gentleman." He was one of 32 people murdered in what has been described as the biggest single shooting attack in US history. Between his first and second bursts of gunfire, the Virginia Tech gunman mailed a package to NBC News containing pictures of him brandishing weapons and video of him delivering a diatribe about getting even with rich people. NBC said that a time stamp on the package indicated the material was mailed in the two-hour window between the first burst of gunfire in a high-rise dormitory and the second fusillade, at a classroom building. Thirty-three people died in the rampage, including the gunman, 23-year-old student Cho Seung-Hui from South Korea, who committed suicide. The package included a manifesto that "rants against rich people and warns that he wants to get even," according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the case. Late Wednesday, MSNBC showed a photo from the package of Cho glaring at the camera, his arms outstretched with a gun in each hand. He wears a khaki-colored military-style vest, fingerless gloves and a backwards, black baseball cap. "NBC Nightly News" planned to show some of the material Wednesday night. Virginia Tech reported shootings on two sides of the 2,600-acre campus, the first at about 7:15 a.m. at a co-ed residential hall called West Ambler Johnston, and resuming about two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building. According to students, at around 7:15 a.m. the gunman appeared in West Ambler Johnston and began searching rooms for his ex-girlfriend. He killed two people, Ryan Clark, and a freshman identified by students as Emily Hilscher. In the second attack, the gunman shot professors and students in classrooms and hallways of the engineering building, killing around 30 people. The carnage ended Monday with the gunman shooting himself in the face. There were 33 deaths in total. Students complained that the university did not adequately warn them about the gunman until over two hours after the first incident and around the time that the second round of killings began. At that time, an e-mail was sent. Virginia Tech President Charles Steger defended the university, saying authorities believed the shooting at the dorm was a domestic clash and an isolated incident. They also mistakenly thought the gunman had left the campus. "We had no reason to suspect any other incident was going to occur," Steger said. He added, "We can only make decisions based on the information you had on the time. You don&#39;t have hours to reflect on it." Steger explained that it was difficult to inform everyone at Virginia Tech because there were thousands of people arriving to the campus on Monday morning. "Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," Steger said. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified." In his speech at the United State Holocaust Memorial, US President George W. Bush paid tribute to Liviu Librescu, the aeronautics engineering professor who died while trying to save students during the shooting spree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. "That day we saw horror, but we also saw acts of quiet courage. 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 might live. And this morning we honor his memory, and we take strength from his example." President Bush said. Liviu Librescu&#39;s body was transported to Israel, on Wednesday, to be buried at the cemetery of the central Israel town of Ra&#39;anana. Marilena, his wife, also flew also from New York Wednesday and due to arrive in Tel Aviv today, 37-year-old son Arieh told Deutsche Presse-Agentur in a telephone interview. -- Original Source:<a href="http://www.israelnewsagency.com/liviulibrescuvirgintechheroraananaisrael48041907.html">http://www.israelnewsagency.com/liviulibrescuvirgintechheroraananaisrael48041907.html</a> Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Israel News Agency Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Joel Leyden,Publisher;israelnewsagency@gmail.com Title A name given to the resource Israel Professor, Murdered Saving Students At Virginia Tech, Buried in Ra&#39;anana librescu life live might others own Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Adriana Seagle Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Ewen MacAskill Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-12 Description An account of the resource <b>Ewen MacAskill Wednesday April 18, 2007</b> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/usguns/Story/0,,2059729,00.html">The Guardian</a> A survivor of the Holocaust died trying to save his students from the Virginia Tech gunman, it emerged yesterday. Liviu Librescu, 76, who survived the Nazi killings, later escaped from communist Romania to become a respected aeronautics expert. "My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," his son, Joe Librescu, said from his home outside Tel Aviv. Student Alec Calhoun told the Guardian how Mr Librescu&#39;s bravery bought him precious seconds after the killer started shooting in the next room. "I thought I was going to die. I started to make a barricade of desks." Mr Calhoun went to jump out of the window. It was then he saw Mr Librescu. "I hung on to the ledge. The professor was trying to hold the door closed. I was the last one out that was not wounded." When he finally forced his way in, Mr Librescu threw himself in front of the attacker, a student told Israel&#39;s Army Radio. "He was killed but thanks to him his students lived," the student said. Messages were posted on the web praising the professor. 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Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Patricia Zengerle Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-06 Description An account of the resource Publicado por Patricia Zengerle 18.04.2007 - 08:05h BLACKSBURG, EEUU (Reuters) - En medio del horror vivido en la Universidad Tecnológica de Virginia también se registraron momentos de heroísmo, como el protagonizado por un anciano profesor superviviente del Holocausto que dio su vida para proteger a los estudiantes. Liviu Librescu, de doble nacionalidad israelí y estadounidense y que nació en Rumania, se mudó hace dos décadas a Estados Unidos, donde daba clases en el Departamento de Ingeniería Científica y Mecánica en el Instituto Politécnico de Virginia y en la Universidad del Estado. Aunque tenía 76 años y había superado hace mucho tiempo la edad para jubilarse, todavía daba clases en la Universidad Tecnológica cuando el lunes surgió el caos en Norris Hall, el edificio del campus donde un hombre armado identificado como Cho Seung-Hui, de 23 años, abrió fuego y mató a 32 personas antes de suicidarse. Los estudiantes describieron cómo Librescu usó su cuerpo para bloquear una puerta frente a Cho para que ellos pudieran escapar saltando por la ventana de la clase, que se encontraba en un segundo piso. Algunos se rompieron la pierna al caer, pero sobrevivieron. Librescu murió tiroteado durante el asalto. Se ha creado un santuario improvisado para el fallecido profesor en el campus, con flores y una fotografía suya. &#39;Era un hombre excepcionalmente tolerante que fue el mentor para académicos de todo nuestro convulsionado mundo&#39;, afirmó Ishwar Puri, jefe de su departamento, en una declaración escrita que fue enviada a la prensa. Estudiantes que sobrevivieron a la masacre en Norris Hall hablaron sobre conserjes de la universidad que, mientras Cho abría fuego en el segundo piso, corrieron a ayudar a otros en lugar de salvarse. &#39;Los conserjes llegaron corriendo y les dijeron a todos que salieran&#39;, dijo Nick Vozza, de 20 años, quien estaba en el sótano del edificio cuando Cho inició el tiroteo dos pisos más arriba. En una clase de alemán, unos pocos alumnos intentaron bloquear la puerta contra la embestida de las balas y luego trataron de echar una mano a sus compañeros heridos mientras esperaban la ayuda, dijo Trey Perkins a Fox News. De los 15 estudiantes que estaban en su clase, sólo unos seis salieron con vida, declaró Perkins. Numerosos estudiantes vistieron el martes de granate y naranja, los colores de la universidad, en una muestra de solidaridad por la tragedia -- Fuente Original: 20minutos.es - España <a href="http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/224441/0/EEUU/TIROTEO/HEROISMO/">http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/224441/0/EEUU/TIROTEO/HEROISMO/</a> Licencia de uso: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/es/"> Creative Commons Reconocimiento 2.1 España. Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Creative Commons Reconocimiento 2.1 España Title A name given to the resource Hubo actos heroicos en medio de la masacre de la universidad librescu Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gustavo D. Perednik Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-01 Description An account of the resource Creado por Gustavo D. Perednik El catoblepas - numero 64 - Junio 2007 - pagina 5 Sobre los defensores selectivos de derechos humanos, que son permisivos sólo con dictaduras. Borges advertía de no convertir la ética en una rama de la estadística, vicio que podría empujar a erróneas conclusiones, por ejemplo que la Segunda Guerra Mundial estalló por una agresión anglonorteamericana contra la inocente Alemania. Ello se deduciría de descontextualizar algunas cifras: durante la contienda fueron muertos cerca de diez mil civiles estadounidenses y unos cien mil británicos, cifras que contrastadas con los casi dos millones de civiles alemanes caídos podría hacer sospechar que el Tercer Reich fue veinte veces más víctima que sus enemigos. Acaso así lo habría planteado <i>Amnistía Internacional</i>, cuyo reciente informe acerca del año 2006 condena a Israel por «crímenes de guerra» durante la Segunda Guerra en el Líbano (12 de julio/14 de agosto de 2006. A.I. se basa en una asimetría insustancial: que han muerto miles de civiles libaneses y «apenas» centenares de hebreos. No repara en la causa de la asimetría: mientras el ejército israelí protege a sus civiles, los grupos terroristas como Hezbolá usan cínicamente a sus propios niños como parapetos para lanzar la agresión. Por medio de disparar sus misiles desde aldeas indefensas, los islamistas especulaban con que, cuando llegara la represalia israelí, sus mecenas mediáticos se apresurarían en exhibir a los judíos como agresores. Su cálculo mostró estar bien fundado y por ello fueron favorecidos por las agencias de noticias. Consistentemente antiisraelíes, los informes de A.I. revelan una conspicua tendenciosidad. Mucho más que Norcorea o Arabia Saudí, el país judío es permanente blanco de sus monitoreos. El <i>Centro de Asuntos Públicos de Jerusalém</i> publicó en 2004 un estudio que compara los informes de A.I. contra Israel con aquellos emitidos acerca de Sudán (éste es un excelente ejemplo después de que dos décadas de violencia étnica y religiosa resultaran en dos millones de muertos y cuatro millones de refugiados). Durante 2001 A.I. produjo siete informes sobre Sudán y 39 sobre Israel. Del estudio se desprenden dos datos elocuentes: 1) A.I. ignoró la destrucción de decenas de aldeas sudanesas, pero condenó una y otra vez la destrucción de cada casa palestina, aun cuando éstas sirvieran de refugio para terroristas; 2) A.I. soslayó miles de asesinatos de civiles sudaneses, pero criticó acremente cada muerte de terroristas activos a manos del ejército israelí. Pese a las críticas a su parcialidad, A.I. no modificó su rumbo y hasta 2003 produjo 52 informes sobre Sudán y 192 sobre Israel. Este año, para envolver su antisionismo en un manto de pretendida ecuanimidad, el informe de A.I. también critica al Hezbolá. La equiparación es de por sí agraviante, ya que pone en un mismo plano una sociedad pujante y democrática de casi siete millones de habitantes, con una banda terrorista teocrática de algunos miles que difunde en el sur libanés el odio de los ayatolás. A.I. pone en un mismo plano a un país que actúa bajo la ley para aplicar su inalienable derecho de autodefensa, con una caterva que esgrime el Corán para bombardear las ciudades de la Galilea con el objeto explícito de destruir nuestro país. Israel no tiene ningún reclamo frente al Líbano, y está dispuesto a firmar con esta nación un tratado de paz sin condiciones, tal como lo hiciera en el pasado (17 de mayo de 1983) hasta que el régimen fascista sirio obligó a que el tratado fuera unilateralmente anulado (los medios jamás volvieron a mencionar este tema para que nadie dedujera que Israel quiere paz). Sin duda los civiles libaneses sufrieron descomunalmente durante la guerra. Sin embargo, aunque no llame la atención de la prensa ni de AI, los civiles israelíes también sufren: cientos de miles de hebreos fueron repetidamente evacuados de sus hogares y albergados en refugios, tal como le está ocurriendo en estos días a la población de la ciudad de Sederot debido a la agresión de misiles del Hamás, ante la indiferencia de A.I. y del mundo. <b>Síndrome confirmado</b> Presidida hoy por una mujer musulmana, A.I. fue fundada en julio de 1961 por un abogado de origen judío que se había convertido al catolicismo pocos años antes. Se trata de un grupo de presión que promueve derechos humanos, aunque sólo en ciertos países. Su rama española presentó en mayo de 2004 en Barcelona un informe del conflicto de Oriente Medio en el que se alinea abiertamente con una de las partes y reclama que el gobierno español se oponga aun más de Israel. Su director, Esteban Beltrán, hace caso omiso al volcán del terrorismo islamista, y fiel al bizantinismo suicida de la extrema izquierda, exhorta a los españoles a distanciarse de Israel. Ese año un profesor de filosofía de la Universidad de Carolina del Norte, Don Habibi, condenó a A.I. en estos términos: Su obsesión sería sensata si Israel fuera el peor violador de derechos humanos en el mundo. Pero cualquier criterio objetivo mostraría que ello no es cierto. Incluso si salteáramos causa y efecto, y la necesidad de Israel de enfrentar una guerra existencial, nunca podría compararse su contienda con las de Sudán, Argelia o Congo. Como la de la ONU, la posición de la A.I. se relaciona más con la política que con los derechos humanos. El sociólogo Daniel Patrick Moynihan, quien activó con los Kennedy en el Partido Demócrata norteamericano y fue embajador de su país en la ONU a mediados de la década del setenta, acuñó un principio que lleva su nombre y reza más o menos así: «La cantidad de violaciones de derechos humanos en un país es inversamente proporcional a la cantidad de quejas sobre derechos humanos que se oyen en ese país». <b>Cuantas más protestas hay en algún lugar, más protegidos parecen estar allí los derechos humanos.</b> Aunque no se deduce de las ciencias exactas, la ocurrente definición refleja un aspecto olvidado de la realidad: como los Estados que más violan los derechos humanos también ahogan la libertad de expresión, las quejas provendrán habitualmente desde las zonas en donde es posible protestar. Un estudio de este año mostró que A.I. dedicó 48 documentos a Israel, 37 a Sudán, 17 a Hezbolá, 10 a la Autoridad Palestina y 2 a Arabia Saudí. La crítica ante datos tan contundentes generó una ilustrativa respuesta de parte del representante de A.I. en Israel, Amnon Vidan. Por un lado, éste admitió que a la organización le cuesta mucho contar con precisión los civiles libaneses muertos, debido a que los terroristas de Hezbolá en general no están uniformados y por ese detalle se los incluye en la categoría de «civiles». Pero por otro lado Vidan reiteró un principio moralmente pérfido: que A.I. espera de Israel un compartimiento mejor que el de sus enemigos precisamente por ser una democracia. Así se ratifica el síndrome Moynihan. Al momento de juzgar, A.I. será más estricta con los defensores de los derechos humanos que con quieres los infringen. Hay precedentes. Cuando se publicaron las caricaturas que mucho enojaron al mundo musulmán (30 de septiembre de 2005) A.I. aseveró que «el derecho a la libre opinión y expresión no es absoluto... conlleva responsabilidades y puede ser objeto de restricciones a fin de salvaguardar los derechos de otros...» En contraste, A.I. nunca ha salido en defensa del «otro» cuando éste es el judío, objeto en los países árabes de frecuentes campañas deshumanizadoras. A.I. reprende a Occidente cuando se defiende y cuando expresa libremente opiniones polémicas, pero perdona a sus enemigos cuando atacan y cuando difaman. Como no se trata de regímenes democráticos, pareciera que hay que ser más condescendiente con ellos. Junto a Moynihan cabe recordar a otro prohombre que bien simboliza la guerra que nos ha impuesto el islamismo. Cuando se produjo la masacre de 32 personas en la Universidad de Virginia (16 de abril de 2007) se destacó el heroísmo de un matemático israelí, Livio Librescu, sobreviviente del Holocausto y profesor de aerodinámica. A los 76 años de edad, Librescu usó su propio cuerpo como barricada para trabar la puerta del aula donde dictaba clase, y así impidió que el asesino Cho Seung-Hui ingresara a la sala de conferencias. Salvó de este modo la vida de sus estudiantes, que escaparon por las ventanas hasta que Librescu fue ultimado a balazos. Israel es Librescu: para sostener el portal de Occidente y sus libertades amenazadas, el país resiste solo la agresión de grupos como Hamás y Hezbolá. En lugar de gratitud, en general cosecha en los medios occidentales la acre incomprensión de aquellos a quienes está defendiendo. Parece que tienden a identificarse con los enemigos de Israel porque éstos no son democráticos, ergo hay que disculparlos. -- Fuente Original: EL CATOBLEPAS - Jerusalén <a href="http://www.nodulo.org/ec/2007/n064p05.htm">http://www.nodulo.org/ec/2007/n064p05.htm</a> Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Gustavo D. Perednik perednik@netvision.net.il August 1, 2007 Title A name given to the resource Entre Moynihan y Librescu amnista internacional amnon vidan centro de asuntos pblicos de jerusalm daniel patrick moynihan hezbol israel lbano librescu onu sudn Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Carlos Alberto Montaner Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-01 Description An account of the resource Por Carlos Alberto Montaner 1 de mayo de 2007 Cuando Seung-Hui Cho fue a entrar pistola en mano en la clase de aeronáutica para asesinar a sus condiscípulos en Virginia Tech, el profesor Liviu Librescu, un anciano de 76 años, menudo de cuerpo pero dotado de un carácter firme, se lo impidió durante unos minutos mientras sus estudiantes huían por las ventanas. Finalmente, el joven asesino hirió de muerte a Librescu y siguió su recorrido en busca de nuevas víctimas. Librescu era el scholar con más publicaciones de toda la universidad. Un verdadero sabio en su campo de investigaciones. Esto sucedió el 16 de abril, precisamente en Yom Hashosha, el día en que se conmemora el Holocausto que arrasó sin piedad con seis millones de judíos europeos entre 1935, cuando Hitler promulgó &#39;&#39;las leyes de Nuremberg&#39;&#39;, con las que despojó de derechos a las personas de esta etnia o religión, hasta 1945, cuando los aliados entraron en los campos de exterminio y, horrorizados, encontraron a un puñado de despojos humanos que habían logrado sobrevivir milagrosamente. Uno de esos sobrevivientes del Holocausto había sido Librescu, entonces un adolescente en su Rumanía natal, a quien el destino todavía le depararía otra experiencia monstruosa: el establecimiento de la dictadura comunista en Rumanía, también teñida por el antisemitismo, la irracionalidad y la barbarie. A fines de los setenta, afortunadamente, por una gestión de Menajem Begin, consiguió emigrar a Israel y, unos años más tarde, desembarcó en Estados Unidos donde acaba de morir heroica e inesperadamente a manos de un muchacho enloquecido. Traigo a cuento la historia triste y gloriosa de Librescu porque llega en medio de un debate mundial: ¿qué hacer con los canallas que niegan la existencia del Holocausto? En Canadá y en algunos países de Europa los parlamentos han aprobado leyes por las que sancionan a quienes niegan el exterminio masivo de judíos, alegando que esa falsedad estimula el odio racial, mientras en Estados Unidos la Primera Enmienda les permite difundir sus envenenadas informaciones porque el Estado no puede legislar en materia de libertad de prensa. Creo que hay dos buenos argumentos para asumir la posición norteamericana. El primero, es que en una democracia libre les corresponde a los ciudadanos y no al gobierno decidir lo que quieren leer y creer. Si cuatro imbéciles racistas, pese a las toneladas de pruebas y testimonios, se dedican a negar la existencia del Holocausto o de la esclavitud de los negros, hay que confiar en el sentido común de la sociedad y no en el de los censores oficiales, gente que acaba por ser muy dañina. Por otra parte, vivir en libertad exige aprender a tolerar la existencia de creencias y actitudes repugnantes. Las dictaduras comunistas, por ejemplo, le costaron a la humanidad cien millones de muertos a lo largo del siglo XX, pero en todas las sociedades libres hay tipos que todavía veneran a Lenin, Stalin, Mao o Fidel Castro, y no queda más remedio que coincidir con ellos pacíficamente en el ascensor o en la cafetería. Pero tal vez existe un argumento táctico para oponerse a las leyes contra la negación del Holocausto. Cada vez que uno de estos racistas abre la boca para mentir y difundir falsedades crea una oportunidad perfecta para recordarle al mundo que el antisemitismo está vivo y coleando y que no desapareció en la Cancillería junto a los huesos quemados de Hitler. Todos los síntomas señalan que hay un peligroso repunte del odio a Israel y a los judíos en diversas partes del mundo. Todo lo que se haga por denunciarlo y detenerlo es una forma de preservar la paz en el mundo. -- Fuente Original: El Instituto Independiente <a href="http://independent.typepad.com/elindependent/2007/05/otra_vez_el_hol.html">http://independent.typepad.com/elindependent/2007/05/otra_vez_el_hol.html</a> Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Gabriel Gasave Reasearch Analyst Center On Global Prosperity The Independent Institute ggasave@independent.org August 01, 2007 Title A name given to the resource Otra vez el holocausto hitler holocausto librescu odio racial rumana Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alberto Benegas Lynch Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-08-01 Description An account of the resource Por Alberto Benegas Lynch (H) 6 de junio de 2007 Después de mucho escrutar con atención buena parte de las reacciones que se sucedieron a raíz de la masacre en la Universidad de Virginia Tech en Estados Unidos, me surgen dos consideraciones. En primer lugar, observo que está muy generalizada la idea de que el problema radica en la tenencia de armas de fuego. A pesar de esta difundida creencia, quisiera destacar que siempre son los asaltantes y criminales los que tendrán armas y que la prohibición de contar con armamentos desarma a las víctimas. Se suele caricaturizar el problema con un póster en el que aparece el rostro de un monstruo bajo el cual se introduce el siguiente interrogante: "¿usted permitiría a que esta persona porte armas?", sin percibir que ese es, precisamente, quien las portará en desmedro de sus víctimas. En EE.UU. la Constitución garantiza la tenencia y porte de armas debido a que tradicionalmente los ciudadanos de aquel país han visto a gobernantes como simples empleados para protegerlos. Estiman peligroso desarmarse, del mismo modo que las personas considerarían peligroso desarmarse y entregar todas sus armas a los guardianes que contratan en un barrio. Por otra parte, César Beccaría, el precursor del Derecho Penal, sostiene que prohibir las armas a particulares "sería lo mismo que prohibir el uso del fuego porque quema o del agua porque ahoga [...] Las leyes que prohíben el uso de armas son de la misma naturaleza: desarman a quienes no están inclinados a cometer crímenes [...] Leyes de ese tipo hacen las cosas más difíciles para los asaltados y más fáciles para los asaltantes, sirven para estimular el homicidio en lugar de prevenirlo ya que un hombre desarmado puede ser asaltado con más seguridad por el asaltante". No es por casualidad que los Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao y Castro de nuestro mundo, como primera medida, confiscan las armas de los gobernados. No es por casualidad, que los mayores exponentes de la sociedad abierta son partidarios de la tenencia de armas entre los particulares, como, por ejemplo, es el caso de Cicerón, Ulpiano, Hugo Grotius, Locke, Algernon Sydney, Montesquieu, Edward Coke, Blakstone, George Washington, George Mason, Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson y Jellinek. En segundo término, en estas líneas quiero destacar el coraje del profesor de la mencionada casa de estudios Liviu Librescu quien ofreció su vida por defender a sus alumnos del asesino serial, hoy por todos conocido. El ingeniero Librescu, por su condición de judío, había estado en un campo de concentración en Rumania, su país natal, a manos de los sicarios nazis. A través de la historia aparece muy manoseada y bastardeada la expresión "héroe" ya que se la suele aplicar no para hazañas que revelan coraje moral sino para ciertas sandeces guerreras que nada tienen que ver con la heroicidad. En este caso, debemos rendir tributo a un genuino héroe, quien, además de sus cualidades intelectuales, ha demostrado que los padecimientos generados por la canallada nacionalsocialista, en lugar de amedrentarlo, reforzaron un notable sentido de dignidad y respeto por las vidas que salvó. En Virginia Tech, los alumnos y profesores le rindieron justiciero tributo a este memorable personaje, es de desear que la masacre no desvíe la atención hacia propuestas que en nada ayudan a resolver la hecatombe que horrorizó a todas las personas civilizadas del planeta. -- Fuente Original: El Instituto Independiente <a href="http://independent.typepad.com/elindependent/2007/06/de_armas_y_hroe.html">http://independent.typepad.com/elindependent/2007/06/de_armas_y_hroe.html</a> Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Gabriel Gasave Reasearch Analyst Center On Global Prosperity The Independent Institute ggasave@independent.org August 01, 2007 Title A name given to the resource De armas y héroes adams algernon sydney armas blakstone castro csar beccara edward coke george mason george washington hitler hroes hugo grotius jellinek librescu locke mao montesquieu mussolini patrick henry thomas jefferson tributo Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Elva Orozco Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jose Kaulen C Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2007-07-20 Description An account of the resource Publicado por Jose Kaulen C April 18, 2007, 10:03 PM La de a continuación, es una historia emocionante, llena de sentido y digna de admiración por parte de todos nosotros. In Memoriam Liviu Librescu. Liviu Librescu, un profesor de 76 años y muy respetado ingeniero aeronáutico que enseñó en Virginia Tech por 20 años, salvó la vida de varios estudiantes bloqueando la puerta de su sala de clases antes de que fuera muerto a balazos en la masacre, de acuerdo a los e-mails enviados por los alumnos a su señora. "Mi padre bloqueó la puerta con su cuerpo y les dijo a sus alumnos que escaparan" ha dicho su hijo, Joe Librescu, en una entrevista telefónica desde su casa en las afueras de Tel Aviv. Agregó además que los "estudiantes comenzaron a abrir las ventanas y a saltar hacia afuera". En el campus, los estudiantes hablan sobre el arrojo de Librescu: "Él debiera ser reconocido como un héroe" dice el estudiante de Virginia Tech Philip Huffstetler además de sentir "que están en una gran deuda con su familia por el resto de nuestras vidas". "Él es la razón de que el estudiante (Seung-Hui) no entrara y matara a más gente; obviamente es un héroe", dice Asal Arad, otro estudiante. Librescu supo de una vida difícil desde que era niño. Cuando Rumania se unió a las fuerzas nazis en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, primero fue internado en un campo de trabajos forzados en Transnistria y luego deportado junto a su familia y miles de otros judíos al ghetto central de Focsani. De acuerdo a un informe recopilado por el gobierno de Rumania en el 2004, entre 280 y 380 mil judíos fueron asesinados por el régimen rumano-nazi durante la guerra. Como un exitoso ingeniero durante el gobierno de postguerra comunista, Librescu encontró trabajo en la agencia aeroespacial de Rumania, pero su carrera fue interrumpida en los 70&#39;s porque rechazó prestar juramento de obediencia al régimen y finalmente fue despedido cuando pidió autorización para irse a Israel. De acuerdo con su hijo, después de años de rechazo gubernamental, el primer ministro israelí, Menachem Begin, intervino personalmente para que obtuviera el permiso de emigración para toda su familia. Se mudaron a Israel en 1978. Librescu deja Israel en 1985 para irse a Virginia en un año sabático, pero terminaría quedándose. Joe Librescu estudió en Virginia Tech entre 1989 y 1994. En Rumania, la comunidad académica lamenta profundamente la muerte de Librescu. "Es una gran pérdida" dijo Ecaterina Andronescu, rector de la Universidad Politécnica de Bucarest, desde donde Librescu se graduó en 1953. "Tenemos una tremenda admiración por la forma en que reaccionó y defendió a sus alumnos con su vida", agregó. En la Universidad Politécnica, donde Librescu recibió un título honorario en el 2000, su foto ha sido puesta sobre una mesa, junto a ella una vela encendida y las personas dejan flores alrededor. "Lo recordamos como un gran especialista en temas de aeronáutica. Deja cientos de importantes documentos", dice uno de los profesores, Nicolae Serban Tomescu. Librescu hizo muchas publicaciones y recibió varios premios por sus trabajos. "Su trabajo fue en algún sentido su vida", dijo Joe Librescu. 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