Osijek

Gradski vrt is a multi-use stadium in the Croatian city of Osijek. It is home to two Croatian football clubs, NK Osijek and Fortuna VNO Osijek. It... has a capacity of 22,050 . The building was started in 1949, but works were stopped several times. Interesting, stadium was never completed by the end. In 1980, the unfinished stadium was opened. In 1982, was broken the record of stadium attendance, on football match between NK Osijek and Dinamo Zagreb. At that match, on stadium were 40,000 attendants. Result was 2-2. In 1998 were installed seats and reflectors. In 2005, the stadium was edited. Under west stand were set VIP rooms, lodge is rearranged . And athletic track was renewed, over-painted from red to blue. After this renovation, the stadium is respected by UEFA criteria of stadiums. In the same year, stadium was a part of Croatia and Hungary's failed bid for the 2012 European Football Championship. Then were presented a projects of a new stadium with a larger capacity. In 2010, stadium was again edited: a lawn is edited, fences are overpainted and seats are numbered.
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Branko Lustig is a prominent Croatian film producer. He is the only person born in Croatia to have won two Academy Awards. Lustig was born in... Osijek, Croatia, , to a Croatian Jewish family. His father, Mirko, was head-waiter at a Osijek Café Central, and his mother, Vilma, was a housewife. Lustig grandparents, unlike his parents, were religious and he regularly attended town Synagogue with them. During World War II, as a child he was imprisoned for two years in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Most members of his family perished in the death camps throughout Europe, including his grandmother who was killed in the gas chamber, while his father was killed in Čakovec by Hungarians on March 15, 1945. Lustig mother survived the Holocaust and was reunited with him after the war. On the day of the liberation Lustig weighted only 66 pounds. Lustig credited his survival in Auschwitz to a German officer that, coincidentally, was from the same Osijek suburb and knew Lustig's father. He overheard Lustig crying in Croatian and asked him who his father was.
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