ID

FBW002740      TV

Country / Year

USA, 1957

Original Title

Eternal Light: One Man

Directed by

[?]

Produced by

NBC (National Broadcasting Company), New York, NY; for Jewish Agency, Jerusalem

Staff

Script: Joseph Mindel

Subject

Raoul Wallenberg

Length

30'

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 24 Nov 1957: Premiere, TV, NBC (National Broadcasting Company)

Abstract

A reconstruction of the miterious case of Raoul Wallenberg, the swedish diplomat, who disappeared from Budapest behind the Iron Curtain in 1954 after having attempted to save the Jews from the Nazis.

Subject Terms

Budapest; Escapes; Jews; Sweden

Holdings

- NBC (National Broadcasting Company), New York, NY

Distributor

United Synagogue of America (initially)

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