Comments on: Liviu Librescu: His story throughout the day

By: Stan

Stan — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:30:50 +0000

xerf. yes he said that. No one denies America’s is one of the best places for Academics as well as other profesionals. Yet he was an Israeli. All his family is in Israel. He saved Jews and Goim alike. But why omit that he is an Israeli? No loss of respect there..

By: xerf

xerf — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:33:26 +0000

Stan,

how do you know “he[...]considered himself to be an Israeli ambassador to America” ? Did he tell you that ?

It also happens that professors are better paid in USA and they better chances and a better academic environment to develop a career. Ths is the reason why in the USA you can find university professors from all over the world. In fact many of the engineering professors were not born in USA. Could that be the reason for which he had lived in Israel for 7 years only?

Respect for the humanity of the Prof. Librescu, no matter the place where he was born, where he lived or his religion.

By: Stan

Stan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:47:19 +0000

This message I have sent to CNN.
after I read the CNN description of Israeli hero on CNN

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/virginiatech.shootings/victims/profiles/liviu.librescu.html

“In you eulogy of Liviu Libresku you omit the fact that he was an Israeli. He loved Israel and considered himself to be an Israeli ambassador to America. Please add the missing information. Thank you.”

People, please ask CNN to correct this

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:51:30 +0000

Professor Librescu was a hero in every sense of the word. I’m sure that his holocaust experiences taught him the value of life and as such, he probably thought, “I’ve lived a full life. These kids are just starting theirs. I’m going to give mine so that they can have theirs”.

By: Paul T

Paul T — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:17:03 +0000

Just to bring everyone in peace, he was a Jew, he was Romanian by birth (and the fact that he got his advanced degrees in Romania should tell you that Jews were not so hated in Europe as you think) and Israeli by ‘adoption’ :) But most of all he was a hero.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:51:20 +0000

“But I found myself thinking: If Librescu is one of the Jews that Hitler missed, just imagine the kinds of men and women we lost.”
To J. Lichty and Meryl Yourish:
None of my words implies that the holocaust was about Jews or not. I am from Europe too and a romanian also like Librescu and i know one or two things about what happened in WWII. What i meant to say it was about this unfortunate event. This has nothing to do with Jews as well as it has nothing to do with the fact that the murderer was a South Coreean or the victims were blacks, whites, asians and so on. All of them were people, equal. It is sad that it happened. It has nothing to do with the fact that Librescu was a Jew, i am not a jew and i like to belive that i would’ve done the same, as well as many other readers. A heroic act has nothing to do with your nationality, color of skin, gender or race, its all about who you are as a person, as a human being, it is in your character.

I was not trying to judge or insult anybody, it just doesn’t seem fair to mention that he was a jew and bring him in slave because of it.

By: Houston

Houston — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:43:37 +0000

He is truly a remarkable man. One I wish I had the privilege of meeting.

As I commented on Laurence’s site, I can only hope that if I were faced with the same decision, that I could make a heroic and honorable choice such as the professor did.

He didn’t do what was easy, he did what was right. That is the mark of a hero.

By: J. Lichty

J. Lichty — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 21:18:58 +0000

To all of you who are attempting to lump in the other unfortunate souls with the Jews – stop it. Many Nazi’s died too because of Nazi aggression. People die in war but Catholics were not systematically murdered by the death machine an in fact many were complicit in the machine. Communists were not hounded, dehumanized, stripped of all human dignity, and to the extent they were it is not because of their “race.”

Why is it so hard for some gentiles like Adrian to even grant us the uniqueness of our own horrors. It is either out of ignorance or hate (the same tactic the deniers use – “some Jews died in the war like all other groups.”

If you do anything but count the superficial number of dead you will learn that non-jewish inmates at camps (with the possible exception of Roma) were treated better than Jews, survived at much higher rates, were not by and large imprisoned or killed because of how they were born but because of some offense, no matter how trumped was pinned on them.

Get used to it. It was the Jews, and only the Jews who were targeted for extermination as a whole nation – every man, woman and child.

In fact, a tell tale sign of the uniqueness of the holocaust as to jews is the fact that even today, the Jewish state is singled out for the opprobrium. Conincidence – I doubt it.

There are many good resources out there that chronicles the holocaust as a jewish event. Yes others are destroyed when anti-semites are ruled by their hate, but they are secondary to the real objects.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:42:41 +0000

One thing that bothered me in all this coverage — and this may be what you were getting at — is how little of the coverage of Librescu mentioned that he was a citizen of Israel.

And I wonder if this stems from a reluctance on the part of the news media to portray any Israeli in a positive light, much less a heroic one.

By: Dick Stanley

Dick Stanley — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:33:08 +0000

It’s a pity Librescu seems to have been the only one with enough courage to fight back against Cho. If more had joined him, the outcome might have been different.