Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust


Lamp Unto My Feet // The Ghosts of Laupheim. D: [?] [US, 1967 ?]

ID

FBW000108      TV series

Country / Year

USA, 1967 ?

Original Title

Lamp Unto My Feet // The Ghosts of Laupheim

Directed by

[?]

Produced by

CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), New York, NY

Staff

On-screen commentary: Charles Kuralt

Appearance

Rudy Bergman

Length

30'

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37 (Kinescope)

Dates

- 11 Dec 1967: Rerun, TV, CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System)

Abstract

After almost 30 years, Rudy Bergman returns to his hometown of Laupheim in Southern Germany to find no trace of the Jewish community of which he was a part prior to WWII.

Subject Terms

Exile after 1933; Laupheim; USA

Bibliography

- Fox, Stuart: Jewish Films in the United States. New York, NY: K.G. Hall, 1976
- Shandler, Jeffrey: While America Watches: Television and the Holocaust in the United States, from 1945 to the Present. New York, NY: Columbia University (Dissertation), 1995
- Shandler, Jeffrey: While America Watches. Televising the Holocaust. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999