Nearly 50 years after his liberation from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Branko Lustig stood onstage at the 1994 Academy Awards ceremony to accept an Oscar for best picture as one of three producers of Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List.”

“My number was A3317,” he said of the tattoo that was inked on his left arm by the Nazis at Auschwitz in 1943. “It’s a long way from Auschwitz to this stage.”

It was a remarkable moment for Mr. Lustig, a Croatian Jew who had survived several concentration and labor camps by the time he was 12; worked on movie sets for decades in Europe; and secured his position on “Schindler’s List” — the story of a factory owner in Poland who saved more than 1,000 of his Jewish workers from Nazi persecution — when he showed Mr. Spielberg his tattoo at their first meeting.

Mr. Lustig died on Nov. 13 in Zagreb, Croatia. He was 87.

In addition to the award for “Schindler’s List,” Mr. Lustig had been a production supervisor for “Sophie’s Choice,” and was associate director of “War and Remembrance,” another Holocaust story filmed at Auschwitz. Before the cameras rolled, Mr. Lustig asked the crew to say a prayer for the dead.

As a youth, Mr. Lustig, who was nearing his 13th birthday when Bergen-Belsen was liberated, never had a bar mitzvah. In 2011, he returned to Auschwitz to celebrate that Jewish ritual, holding it in front of Barrack 24, where he had been incarcerated.