ID

FBW002745      TV series

Country / Year

USA, 1959

Original Title

This Is Your Life // Count Felix von Luckner

Directed by

Richard Gottlieb

Produced by

Ralph Edwards Productions, Los Angeles, CA; for NBC (National Broadcasting Company), New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Axel Gruenberg; Executive producer: Ralph Edwards; Interviewer: Ralph Edwards

Appearance

Felix von Luckner; Lowell Thomas; [Mrs.] Kohler; Adolph Miller; Ingeborg Luckner; Terry Allen; Rose Janson

Length

30'

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 04 Nov 1959: Premiere, TV, NBC (National Broadcasting Company)

Abstract

Luckner became honored for having refused high office from the Nazis and saving the life of Mrs. Janson, a Jewess. Luckner fled to Sweden.

Subject Terms

Rescue; Sweden

Holdings

- Ralph Edwards Productions, Los Angeles, CA; 16mm

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