"I'm very honored, I feel this is a good [resting place] for the Oscar," Lustig told Reuters. "I'm not parting with it, I am leaving it to the nation, for generations to come. ...All Yad Vashem's visitors will see it. At my home there is only my wife and my daughter."

The 83-year-old Lustig was born in Croatia and survived both the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. The Yad Vashem ceremony was attended by Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, who said the donated Oscar statue is a "beacon of light" and a reminder of the sacrifices made by non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust.

"His decision to separate himself from the award which means so much to a producer, to a creator, and to send it to Yad Vashem for eternity is very meaningful," said Yad Vashem's chairman, Avner Shalev.

Reprinted with permission from JNS.org.

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