Branko Lustig
Biography
Branko Lustig was a Croatian film producer born on June 10, 1932, in Osijek, Yugoslavia. His traumatic childhood, marked by imprisonment in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen during World War II, had a profound impact on his life. Lustig went on to win two Academy Awards for Best Picture for Schindler's List and Gladiator, becoming the first person born in present-day Croatia to achieve this feat.