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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 · Mr. Lustig, who went on to win a second Oscar as a producer of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” (2000), died on Nov. 13 in Zagreb, Croatia, at 87. His daughter, Sara Lustig, said the cause was ...
Branko Lustig is a Croatian film producer. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia to have won two Academy Awards. Lustig was born in Osijek, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, to a Croatian Jewish family. His father, Mirko, was head-waiter at an Osijek Café Central, and his mother, Vilma, was a housewife.
Branko Lustig visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in 2015. (Nir Elias/AP) ... He and his mother were among the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust.
- Emily Langer
Biography. Branko Lustig survived persecution during the Holocaust. Branko Lustig was born in Osijek, Croatia on June 10, 1932. He was the son of Mirko Lustig and Vilma Gütter. Most of Branko's family was killed in the Holocaust, and he was only 29.9 kg on the day that he was liberated. Branko died in Zagreb on November 14, 2019.
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 15, 2019 · Branko Lustig (1932–2019), Auschwitz survivor and “Schindler’s List” producer ... Please, on my behalf and on the behalf of the state of Israel my deepest condolences to the family ...
