Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, an Israeli engineering and math lecturer, was known for his research, but his son said the Holocaust survivor will be remembered as a hero for protecting students as the ...

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Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, was teaching a solid mechanics class in Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus April 16. As Seung-Hui Cho tried to enter his classroom, Librescu ordered his students to ...

RA’ANANA, Israel – Liviu Librescu, the 76-year-old professor and Holocaust survivor who died protecting his students from the Virginia Tech gunman, was eulogized Friday in a cemetery surrounded by ...

RAANANA, Israel – A Holocaust survivor gunned down trying to save his students from the Virginia Tech shooting rampage was buried in Israel Friday to the sobs of his grieving family. Engineering ...

Gedeon Dagan, a friend and former colleague of Professor Liviu Librescu, who was killed while barricading the door of his classroom during the Virginia Tech shooting, remembers his life and personal ...

The dean of Virginia Tech’s Engineering Science and Mechanics department said in an e-mail this morning that two of the department’s professors were among the 31 people killed by a gunman at Norris ...

Liviu Librescu, 76, was born a Jew in Romania and, as a young teenager during World War II, survived the Holocaust. So it was a cruel irony that April 16, the day the Virginia Tech engineering ...