Croatia`s `Schindler`s List` producer dies aged 87
(Artdaily.org)

Croatian film producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig, who won Oscars for `Schindler`s List` and `Gladiator`, died Thursday in Zagreb aged 87, state-run HINA news agency reported. Lustig was born into a Croatian Jewish family in the eastern town of Osijek in June 1932. He was held as a child in the notorious Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps with the number A3317 tattooed on his arm, and most members of his family died in Nazi camps throughout Europe. `It is a long way from Auschwitz to this stage,` he said as he accepted an Oscar as producer for Steven Spielberg`s `Schindler`s List` in 1993. `The dying ones left me the legacy to tell -- if I survive -- how it was.` Lusting studied at a Zagreb acting academy in the 1950s before finding work in the movies, first as an organiser and later as a director and producer. He directed and produced more