Prof. Livrescu, one of the 32 victims of the Virginia college massacre, and his wife were Holocaust survivors

A leading engineering expert in Romania, the communist regime refused his application to emigrate to Israel until 1978 after late prime minister Menahem Begin’s intercession on his behalf with former President Ceaucescu. After spending some years in Israel, the professor took a sabbatical in the United States and stayed on to teach and pursue researches. One of Prof. Livrescu’s sons lives in Raanana north of Tel Aviv and a second in California.