Branko Lustig was just a boy, newly arrived at Auschwitz, when he witnessed a scene that would be seared into his memory. Seven prisoners at the Nazi death camp were to be hanged in a public execution, and Lustig found himself in the front row before the gallows. "Moments before they were hanged, before the bench was kicked out from them, they all said as one: `Remember how we died,` " he recounted years later. "Tell the story about us," they implored. Lustig was 12 years old and suffering from typhoid when he was liberated from another Nazi camp, Bergen-Belsen, in 1945. He returned to his native Croatia and, in time, embarked on a film career that would take him to movie...
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