More than $100,000 has been invested into a five-minute YouTube clip
created to combat Holocaust denial in the United States, and to increase
awareness of the atrocity among American teenagers.
According to its producers, “Rainbow in the Night” is the first
Holocaust clip ever to be made. It includes hundreds of actors, and took
hundreds of hours to shoot. Daniel Finkelman, an ultra-Orthodox man
living in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, is behind the project.
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.”
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 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.
Last week, a new survey to mark International Holocaust Memorial Day
showed that only 6 percent of Israeli children cite history lessons as a
significant source of learning about the Holocaust.
The annual survey, conducted by the Massuah Institute for Holocaust
Studies among 919 students, shows school education has a very limited
influence on shaping young Israelis' understanding of the Holocaust.
Only 0.5 percent said the Holocaust memorial ceremonies, which take
place for Israeli children throughout their school years, were
significant in their Holocaust education.
Almost 40 percent cited survivors' testimonies as having the highest educational value.
U.S. Jew produces $100,000 YouTube clip on the Holocaust - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
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