the name Leopold Page. Pfefferberg and his wife were Spielberg's guests on the night Schindler's List won seven Academy Awards. In his acceptance speech for best director that night, Spielberg thanked "a survivor named Poldek Pfefferberg ... I owe him such a debt. He has carried the story of Oskar Schindler to all of us." Pfefferberg was a founder of the Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation, which recognises acts by individuals and organizations, regardless of race or nationality. He remarked on the Foundation: Only when the foundation is a reality will I say I have fulfilled my obligation. Because when I am no longer here, when the Schindler Jews are not here, the foundation will still go on. Pfefferberg died on March 9, 2001, aged 87, in Beverly Hills. See also Polish contribution to World War II Sikorski–Mayski agreement United States Holocaust Memorial Museum References External links The Oscar Schindler Story Retrieved 8 September 2006. BBC news report "Schindler's List found in Sydney" "Oskar? He was a God. Thomas Keneally tells how he stumbled on the story that became Schindler's List." The Guardian. 18 June 2004. Oskar Schindler at Jewish Virtual Library 1913 births 2001 deaths American Ashkenazi Jews Austro-Hungarian Jews Polish Ashkenazi Jews Burials at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery Gross-Rosen concentration camp survivors Jagiellonian University alumni Kraków Ghetto inmates Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp survivors Polish emigrants to the United States Polish expatriates in Hungary Polish expatriates in Germany Military personnel from Kraków Schoolteachers from Kraków Schindlerjuden Naturalized citizens of the United States