Rainbow in the Night Holocaust Clip Cost Whopping $100,000 to Make

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rainbow-in-the-night-8Matzav.com recently posted Rainbow in the Night, a short YouTube clip, a brief but exceptionally powerful video created specifically for today’s fast paced generation. Using stunning cinematography, a haunting score, hard hitting lyrics and vocals that will touch the deepest recesses of the soul, this historical work offers a glimpse into World War II Krakow as seen through the eyes of a survivor.

It has now emerged that the 5 minute clip cost a whopping $100,000 to make.

Beginning with footage of a 1939 oil painting of a synagogue being ravaged by the Nazis, shown at a private event in the survivor’s home, Rainbow in the Night is an exquisitely emotional journey, as the survivor recalls first the warmth of his childhood home, then the shock and disbelief as people are forced to leave their homes for the Krakow ghetto, taken to an extermination camp and after enduring unspeakable cruelty, finally liberated. Set against a backdrop of utter despair and hopelessness, the survivor relives the inexplicable power that enabled him to persevere, the rainbow in the figurative night that promised better days to come. Culminating triumphantly with our hope for the future, the faces of hundreds of modern day Jewish children, Rainbow in the Night is both a euphoric tribute to the indomitable human spirit that enabled the Jewish people to survive against all odds and also a call to arms, to rekindle the spark of Jewish pride and unity among Jews worldwide, as we continue to rebuild the generations that were destroyed by the Nazis.

Filmed in New York, Krakow and inside the Majdanek concentration camp, this first ever music video depicting the Holocaust was directed by Daniel Finkelman, with cinematography by Mauricio Arenas and produced by both Finkelman and Arenas. With a stirring title track written and composed by executive producer Cecelia Margules and sung by legendary tenor Cantor Yaakov Lemmer, Rainbow in the Night is an epic historical work that will allow the voices of survivors to be heard for generations to come.

More than $100,000 was invested into the five-minute clip created to combat Holocaust denial in the United States and to increase awareness of the atrocity among American teenagers.

The clip includes hundreds of actors and took hundreds of hours to shoot.

As the number of Holocaust survivors decreases with time, so too do the voices that keep the memory of the atrocity alive, explains Finkelman. “As those voices fade, the voices of Holocaust deniers are amplified,” he told Haaretz.

This thought had plagued Finkelman for the past few years, and drove him to initiate a campaign aimed at non-Jewish teenagers in the United States.

“There is an entire generation that is growing up in a fast-paced world, in which something new happens every moment. That young generation hasn’t got the patience to learn about the Holocaust,” says Finkelman. “For us it is an inseparable part of the Jewish history; for them it is another black and white entry in the encyclopedia.”

Finkelman explained to  Haaretz. that the goal of his campaign was to grab the attention of those teenagers via a medium that interests them, and – in a five-minute clip – encapsulate the horrors of the Holocaust alongside the tremendous hopes of the Jews who suffered there.

In addition, he hoped the clip would warn young Jews against assimilation. Keeping our Jewish identity, said Finkelman, was a way of showing victory over the Nazis.

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12 COMMENTS

  1. Everything was done beautifully, except at the very end. “We survived”, however, 6,000,000 of our brethren did not. It is a little insensitive to their memories to say such a thing. Yiddishkeit survived and is thriving. But, those neshomos did not. It is akin to the concept of “lo’ag l’rash” making fun of those who are no longer. The final message takes away from the rest of the video.

  2. i went onto youtube to see the video larger (it wasn’t working for me through matzav). i was HORRIFIED to read the comments underneath… people saying the holocaust never happened, there is no proof of jews being gassed, and even if they believe jews were gassed, they are happy that it happened and wish it would happen again (CHALILA!!). wow… i guess i’ve been sheltered, b”H, against the real, venemous, radical hatred towards us in the world these days.

  3. Good video, Bad song. They would have done better if they would have given that money to fund Holocaust education in schools, and yeshivas instead. How many people are really gonna do something after watching the video?

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