Virginia Tech Tragedy: The Lives Lost

From the freshman with a "luminous smile" to the hero Holocaust survivor who helped save his students' lives, see the portraits of the victims

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CHRISTOPHER 'JAMIE' BISHOP, 35

Along with his wife, Stephanie Hofer, Bishop was a German professor at Virginia Tech and helped coordinate the university's exchange program with the Darmstadt University of Technology. Before joining the faculty at VT, the Fulbright scholar studied at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, where he taught English, perfected his German and met the woman he would marry, according to his Web site.