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Academy award winning producer to donate Oscar to Yad Vashem
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleCroatian film producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig announces he will donate the Oscar he won as producer of Schindler’s List to Yad Vashem tomorrow, Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.
At a ceremony scheduled for Wednesday, Lustig will present his award to Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev. Croatia’s president, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović will also be in attendance.
Together with Steven Spielberg, Lustig produced the Holocaust epic, which won Best Picture of 1994 at the Academy Awards.
As a child, Lustig was imprisoned for two years by the Nazis in the Auschwitz death camp. After the war, he became a prominent film producer, and won two Oscars for his work.
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