Steven Spielberg Producer Set for Auschwitz Bar Mitzvah
It sounds like a scene straight out of a movie: on May 2nd, 78-year-old two-time Oscar winner and former concentration camp prisoner Branko Lustig (pictured, far left) will travel to the Auschwitz Museum in Oswiecim, Poland to celebrate his bar mitzvah in front of Barrack 24.
But it is in fact a remarkable bit of real-life poetic justice, as reported by Tom Tugend of the Jewish Journal. Lustig was a prisoner at Auschwitz at age 13, when he would nave normally celebrated the rite of passage.
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