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Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for Schindler's List and Gladiator. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia to have won two Academy Awards .
Nov 21, 2019 · Branko and his mother, Vilma (Gütter) Lustig, were deported to Auschwitz in 1943. Branko, an only child, was sent to a labor camp in F ü rstengrube , near Auschwitz, where he and other prisoners ...
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- Richard Sandomir
Nov 14, 2019 · Branko Lustig, a Croatia-born Jew who survived the Nazi death camps of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen and went on to win two best picture Oscars, died Thursday at his home in Zagreb, Croatia. He was 87.
Branko Lustig was a production manager and producer of films such as Gladiator, Schindler's List and The Saint. He was also a Croatian Jewish survivor of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, and made a cameo appearance in Schindler's List.
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- Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia
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- Zagreb, Croatia
Branko Lustig was just a boy, newly arrived at Auschwitz, when he witnessed a scene that would be seared into his memory. Seven prisoners at the Nazi death camp were to be hanged in a public ...
- Emily Langer
Nov 14, 2019 · Today we mourn the loss of one of our closest friends, Branko Lustig, a Holocaust survivor and two-time Academy Award winner who produced Schindler’s List and played an indispensable role in the founding of USC Shoah Foundation. He was 87. Shortly after the film’s 1993 release, Lustig -- who witnessed horrific atrocities at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and other concentration and labor camps ...
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Nov 14, 2019 · Holocaust survivor and Academy Award winner Branko Lustig, who nabbed best picture Oscars for “Schindler’s List” and “Gladiator,” has died at his home in Croatia.He was 87. His death was ...
