tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801020625658998297.post3425828156946391182..comments2023-10-22T10:51:45.374-05:00Comments on America: Yom HaShoah & Yom MilaadMike Ghousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2801020625658998297.post-873213472548457752007-04-19T14:54:00.000-05:002007-04-19T14:54:00.000-05:00Professor Liviu Librescu,we salute you, on the Yom...Professor Liviu Librescu,<BR/>we salute you, on the Yom HaShoah commemoration. May god bless your soul.<BR/><BR/>http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/041907dnnatprofessor.37fdcbc.html<BR/><BR/>Faithful mourn a 'hero of the Jewish people' <BR/><BR/>Bravery of professor, Holocaust survivor praised in N.Y. <BR/><BR/><BR/>11:57 PM CDT on Wednesday, April 18, 2007<BR/>From Wire Reports <BR/><BR/>NEW YORK – Liviu Librescu's unadorned wooden casket was shouldered Wednesday by Jewish men who had not known the Virginia Tech science professor but whose fathers and grandfathers were, like Mr. Librescu, Holocaust survivors<BR/><BR/>Mourners inside the nondescript hall of Shomrei Hachomos Orthodox Chapels spoke in awe of Mr. Librescu's efforts to block a gunman from entering his classroom, allowing an untold number of students to flee. The gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, killed Mr. Librescu and 31 others before committing suicide. <BR/><BR/>"We all know in our community that to save one life is to save the world," said City Council member Dov Hikind, a frequent spokesman for the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, the largest in the nation. "Look at the final act of Professor Librescu." <BR/><BR/>A community leader called Mr. Librescu a "hero of the Jewish people," and a former Virginia Tech student living in Manhattan arrived unannounced and said her professor's stand against a campus gunman Monday did not surprise her. <BR/><BR/>Here, Mr. Librescu's wife, far from her Virginia home, spoke to those who had never met him. <BR/><BR/>"He was a very human person. He was a hard man also. He wanted everybody to be 100 percent," said Marlena Librescu, 72. "His life was only his family and his students." <BR/><BR/>Outside the building, the kaddish, the Jewish prayer of mourning, was hummed by hundreds as the casket was placed into a black car. Some noted that the professor was killed on Holocaust Remembrance Day. <BR/><BR/>His body arrived in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning, a process facilitated by Rabbi Edgar Gluck, a member of Chesed Shel Emes, an organization that conducts burials for Jews around the world. Mr. Gluck said Mr. Librescu's body was to be flown out of New York on Wednesday night and would be buried in a cemetery near Ranana, Israel, by sundown today. <BR/><BR/>As Ms. Librescu spoke, another woman with tears in her eyes walked up behind her. Dana Dillon-Townes, 28, a former Virginia Tech student who lives in Manhattan, embraced the smaller woman and kissed her face. <BR/><BR/>Ms. Dillon-Townes told reporters she was also a family friend of one of the slain students. "This is just a compilation," she said, "of a huge amount of horror." <BR/><BR/>Luis Perez, NewsdayMike Ghousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01647894600183489442noreply@blogger.com