The Oscar statuette he received Schindler’s List (Schindler’s List) Steven Spielberg as Best Picture of 1993 was delivered today Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, Yad Vahsem , which works to preserve the memory of the genocide.
The Croatian producer and Holocaust survivor Branko Lustig delivered this morning at the Yad Vashem Visual Center Oscar One of the seven who got the film- he received for the film in a ceremony in which he was accompanied by the president of Croatia, Kolinda Grabar-Kitaroviæ , an official visit to the country.
“This Oscar represents all victims and survivors, what they went through. It represents the people who were murdered and he ordered us to tell their stories,” Lustig said at the ceremony, he told Efe the spokesman memorial institution.
The statue will be exhibited from now in the visual center of the museum.
“Thank you for your courage in making the film and your decision to separate you from your Oscar as significant for any creator, and give it to Yad Vashem, the Mount of Remembrance, where he was seen by millions of visitors, “he said museum director Avner Shalev .
As marks the protocol for visits of foreign state, the Croatian president visited the Museum of the History of the Holocaust, participated in a memorial ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance, visited the Children’s Memorial and signed the guestbook.
“Lustig, a Holocaust survivor, promotes tolerance and education in Croatia. It is our common task to work toward that tolerance and educate children. Education is the strongest weapon against any kind of radical or racist ideology, “Grabar-Kitarovia, who signed a joint statement with the Yad Vashem on the Holocaust remembrance and education said.
Lustig, Jewish Croatian was in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen during World War II and many of his relatives were killed in death camps
During his career has received two Oscars, one for Schindler’s list , which starting today will stay in Jerusalem, and another for Gladiator .
EFE
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