Hats off to this man!

It is a hero that sacrifices their own life to save others - so we have been taught. Is self-sacrifice a path to heaven? Perhaps this was the mission he survived the holocaust to perform. Perhaps all his life he pondered why he survived while so many died? Perhaps God already knew he would be needed on this fateful day and was spared when so many others were taken?
Maybe, maybe the survivors of this incident were spared for a similar function in the future that only God knows?
Liviu should be honored for his sacrifice.

If anybody has the right to say "society owes me" it is a Holocaust survivor. And yet this man willingly laid down his life for others. My generation and those that follow need to learn much from his example.

skwirlinator...I was thinking the same thing after reading this story this morning.

Every life has a purpose. Who knows. "Greater love has no man than he who lays down his life for a friend." In this case, many friends. I'm sure we will be hearing more such stories.

Another member of the "Greatest Generation." What they have done for the world by the examples they have left us!

POPPED for all of the above comments above me. : )

Me, too. This man proves that we are all here for a reason. We don't know what it is, may it be big, or may it be small, but there is a reason for each of our lives.

Clearly a hero kept for a reason. We should also recognize and remember that as a Holocaust survivor at age 76 he would have been in the camps between ages 8 and 14 or he could have been a child, like a professor I knew, who was lowered through the floorboards of a train on the way to the camps and ran away at age 5.

This gives us a chance to remember and understand lives saved, lives lived and the fact that no matter what horror's we suffer and survive life goes on and there is truly meaningful hope.