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 13^th 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.

Rabbi Henry Sobel, a Brazilian human rights activist who led Latin America’s largest liberal Jewish congregation and who drew wide attention for defying his country’s dictatorship in the aftermath of a notorious political killing, died Nov. 22 in Miami. He was 75.

Rabbi Sobel, a Lisbon native, was a national figure in his adopted homeland, his counsel sought by presidents, popes and the Dalai Lama. He came to prominence in Brazil in 1975 after Vladimir Herzog, the news director of a São Paulo television station was murdered in prison by his military torturers. The dictatorship falsely claimed that Mr. Herzog had committed suicide, an act that would have relegated his burial to a remote corner of the cemetery. But Rabbi Sobel chose to inter Mr. Herzog at the center of the cemetery with full rites.

Days later, he led an interfaith service in honor of Mr. Herzog with Catholic and Protestant clergy by his side. Thousands turned out for the service and stood in silent protest in a rare display of defiance against the despotic military leaders who would run Brazil for another decade.

The Shofar has been advised of two deaths within the shul family. Long-time shul member H. Lee Blumberg died Sept. 30. Mary Anthea Mueller, mother Tim Mueller, a long-time friend of the congregation, died Dec. 4. The Shofar joins the membership in mourning these losses.

Marcelle Ninio, who was imprisoned in Egypt from 1955 to 1968 for her role in a failed Israeli spy operation in 1954, died Oct. 23 in Ramat Gan, Israel, near Tel Aviv. She was 89.

According to an account in the New York Times, Ms. Ninio, who was born in Egypt, was a devoted Zionist. She was working as a secretary in Cairo when she was recruited in 1951 by an Israeli intelligence agent to the secret Unit 131. The outfit was largely dormant until 1954, when Gamal Abdel Nasser seized authority in Egypt after leading the coup that overthrew the monarchy of King Farouk two years earlier. Israel was concerned that Nasser would nationalize the Suez Canal and block access to a critical shipping route. Unit 131’s mission was to detonate bombs to show that Nasser could not protect American and British property or people. The plot failed. She and others were arrested, tried and convicted. She was sentenced to a 15-year term.

In 2005, she and the two other surviving members of what was called Operation Susannah were given military ranks in the Israel Defense Forces for their service to the country.

Marta Kurtag, a pianist and teacher who shared a 72-year collaboration with her husband, the prominent avant-garde composer Gyorgy Kurtag, profoundly influencing his work and joining him in dual recitals, died Oct. 17 in Budapest. She was 92.

She played a pivotal role in Hungarian musical life as a piano teacher — first at the Bela Bartok College of Music in Budapest, from 1953 to 1963, and then, after 1972, on the faculty of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Hungary’s storied conservatory from which she had graduated in 1952. A pianist of considerable skill and insight, she had a solo career of her own in Eastern Europe.

Of the joint piano recitals, Alex Ross of The New Yorker wrote, “You felt that you were eavesdropping on an intimate family affair. Like some sweet old couple in a movie, the Kurtags smiled at each other and allowed their bodies to sway with the music, apparently oblivious of the packed hall of new-music aficionados watching them.”

At risk after WWII had broken out, Jews faced increasing repression in Hungary. Her father urged her to flee. With forged papers and the help of a Zionist group, she crossed into Romania. Left behind, her parents and her brother perished.

The family of Bruce Bloom acknowledges with gratitude the many expressions of sympathy and condolence from shul members and friends. Cards, letters and phone calls have eased the sense of loss during this difficult time, the family said.

Shul member Sara Bloom, co-editor of The Shofar, announces to readers that Bruce Bloom, her husband of 58 years, died Oct. 18, from complications of Parkinson’s disease.