Remembering Branko Lustig, Ron Leibman, Irving Burgie, Seymour Siwoff

Branko Lustig was the Croatian film producer who was a prisoner at Auschwitz as a boy. He survived and went on to become an acclaimed film producer who won an Academy Award along with Steven Spielberg in 1994 for Schindler’s List (1993). Ron Leibman was the film, television, and Broadway actor who won a 1993 Tony Award for his portrayal of Roy Cohn in Angels in America. Irving Burgie was the songwriter who wrote some of the most well-known Caribbean folk songs of the 1950’s for Harry Belafonte. As head of the Elias Sports Bureau for many decades, Seymour Siwoff was the guru of sports statistics in America.