Word: librescu
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...truest form of self-sacrificing heroism was demonstrated by a man whose career choice promised him safety and security. As a schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust; but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his imperiled students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what he had to do. It's impossible to say how God's hand plays into such things, but no matter how miraculous Librescu's survival during World...
...truest form of self-sacrificing heroism was demonstrated by a man whose career choice promised him safety and security. As a schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust, but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his imperiled students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what he had to do. It's impossible to say how God's hand plays into such things, but no matter how miraculous Librescu's survival during World...
...truest form of self-sacrificing heroism was demonstrated by a man whose career choice promised him safety and security. As a schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust; but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what to do. Librescu became a doomed but beautiful guardian angel to the students who are alive because of his heroism...
Elsewhere students mistook the sounds for construction work going on nearby. Liviu Librescu, 77, the Holocaust survivor, was teaching solid mechanics on the same hall when the class heard the shots. He braced his body in front of the door, yelling to his students to head for the window. They pushed out the screens, jumped or dropped into bushes below to escape. "I must've been the eighth or ninth person who jumped, and I think I was the last," said Alec Calhoun, who landed in a bush and ran. The two students behind him were shot, he said...
...Librescu's son, Joe, said his father's students sent e-mails detailing how the professor saved their lives by blocking the doorway of his classroom from the approaching gunman before he was fatally shot. "My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu said Tuesday in a telephone interview from his home outside of Tel Aviv. "Students started opening windows and jumping...