Virginia Tech hero is buried in Israel

A 76-year-old professor who was killed while protecting his students during the Virginia Tech shooting has been buried in Israel, his adopted home. Romanian-born Holocaust survivor Liviu Librescu was hailed a hero for holding the gunman at bay as his class escaped. Romania awarded Mr Librescu its highest medal and officials attended the burial in the central Israeli town of Raanana... Jewish human rights organisation the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has highlighted the"unbelievable" irony that he died saving others on the annual Holocaust memorial day. Mr Librescu is thought to have saved the lives of a number of students by using his body to barricade a classroom door before he was gunned down by Cho Seung-hui. His heroism has been recounted by e-mails from students in the aftermath of the killings.

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