something I thought I'd pass along, from DU and other places
Yesterday was Yom HaShoah, the day of Holocaust remembrance.
A Holocaust survivor was killed at Virginia Tech yesterday, Liviu Librescu, age 76, of the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department.
According to this article in the Jerusalem Post, the Romanian-born Librescu was sent to a camp in Russia and saved by the townspeople there; his father was deported by the Nazis.
And accoding to his students, he was shot when he placed his body between his students and the shooter and physically barricaded the door so that the students could flee through the windows.
And someone pointed out that those townspeople who saved the life of a young boy nearly 70 years ago could not possibly have known they would indirectly play a part in the saving of more young lives in another century and another country. And in this time, Professor Librescu had no way of knowing yet more lives that may be saved someday by the young people he sacrificed himself for in the present age.
Everybody knows there is a never-ending cycle of violence in our world. It's impossible to forget. I want to point out that there is also a cycle of mercy and grace.
A Holocaust survivor was killed at Virginia Tech yesterday, Liviu Librescu, age 76, of the Engineering Science and Mechanics Department.
According to this article in the Jerusalem Post, the Romanian-born Librescu was sent to a camp in Russia and saved by the townspeople there; his father was deported by the Nazis.
And accoding to his students, he was shot when he placed his body between his students and the shooter and physically barricaded the door so that the students could flee through the windows.
And someone pointed out that those townspeople who saved the life of a young boy nearly 70 years ago could not possibly have known they would indirectly play a part in the saving of more young lives in another century and another country. And in this time, Professor Librescu had no way of knowing yet more lives that may be saved someday by the young people he sacrificed himself for in the present age.
Everybody knows there is a never-ending cycle of violence in our world. It's impossible to forget. I want to point out that there is also a cycle of mercy and grace.