Hillel and Chabad at the University of Kansas held a meeting earlier this month in order to honor the memory of Liviu Librescu, the Holocaust survivor and professor who was killed in the Virginia Tech massacre. The event featured discussions and a PowerPoint presentation on Librescu’s life.

Marni Green, Buffalo Grove, Ill., sophomore and Chabad member, created the PowerPoint tribute because she wanted to remember the Virginia Tech victims and especially honor Librescu.

“I wish I would have met him in person,” Green said. “He seemed like such a wonderful man.”

Lou Frydman, associate professor emeritus of social welfare, took part in the tribute by speaking about his experiences as a Holocaust survivor.

Frydman, who was 12 years old when he was taken to the first of three different concentration camps during the Holocaust, said he came from an extended family of more than 40 members. But on the first day of his capture, that number dropped to only two: just him and his brother.

In addition to the memorial, students created an opportunity for students to do good deeds in honor of the Virginia Tech victims.

… any student on campus could promise to do a “Mitzvah,” which is a good deed in Hebrew, write the deed on a postcard and attach it to a large poster board in memory of the victims.

Green said the poster board would be kept on a wall in the Chabad House, 1201 W. 19th St., as a permanent memorial.