Schindler's List producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig dies at 87
Branko Lustig, an Oscar-winning Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor, has died at 87.
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem said Lustig died Thursday in Zagreb, the capital of his native Croatia. No other details were immediately released.
Lustig is best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and for Ridley Scott's Gladiator.
Lustig was born in the eastern Croatian town of Osijek, which was part of the Yugoslavia at the time. In World War II, he was imprisoned at Auschwitz death camp and later in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
