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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 .
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
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 ...
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.
Nov 19, 2019 · Branko Lustig, who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen as a child, died at 87 in Croatia. He worked with Steven Spielberg on Schindler’s List and other films, and helped create the USC Shoah Foundation.
Nov 14, 2019 · Lustig, who co-produced Schindler's List and Gladiator, was born in Croatia and survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. He donated his Oscar to Yad Vashem and received honors from Croatia and Hollywood.
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Nov 14, 2019 · Branko Lustig, the Oscar-winning producer of the Holocaust film “Schindler’s List,” has died. Lustig died Thursday at his home in Croatia at the age of 87.