Freedom Writers - visit to the Museum of Tolerance (Simon Wiesenthal Center), Los Angeles
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- Two scenes from the film Freedom Writers (2007 - dir. Richard LaGravenese) - the visit to the Museum of Tolerance, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles and the meal with 3 Holocaust survivors.The real Holocaust survivors appear in the film (which is based on a true story - see here en.wikipedia.o.... See here ( • Freedom Writers ) for a documentary summary and explanation of this film which is a personal favourite of mine.
Fun Fact: The Holocaust survivors in the film, who eat dinner with the students at the Marriot, are the actual survivors who dined with the real Freedom Writers.
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I am very glad for this fact.
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This comment should be a top comment. Everyone should know about this.
"my little boy died" right in the feels
D.C Greg, it's just soccer.
@SlaughterSalamander he dumb
@Dylan Jurosovich that's sweet bro, but that was a quote from the video
The holocaust story is a sad story like no other. Always gets to me
He said that line perfectly!
We need way more teachers like Ms. G
There waz 1 buh he died
Shaya Kells sadly she passed away peacefully
Jacky Lopez who was he
Jacky Lopez shut the entire fuck up! No she didn’t
yea and pay em $26k
Alejandro's face after saying "he was only five" made me cry😭
We had a Holocaust survivor come to our middle school to talk about her story. Even though you would think people would have the brains to be respectful, during the time we could ask questions about six different kids asked her if she ever met Hitler. Some laughed when they asked. As time passes we were so lucky to have her presence and have the honor to hear her story. She didn't deserve that kind of disrespect.
Edit to clarify: This happened almost seven years ago so I don't remember her name but I do remember her story and how heartbreaking everything she told us was.
@@killerklinge52 how do you mean lairs deserve no respect
@@butterflygirl1025 Aii you trippin
At least you were respectful. And her story is in your memory. That is enough
@@butterflygirl1025 oh looky here folks! We got a holocaust denier! Brain must be small huh?
im pretty sure jennifer made a typo and corrected it while butterfly must have seen the original sentance before it was edited.. soo... chill out?
I went there last year when i was in 8th grade. It was one of the most emotional experience of my life. The card i got,the little girl was seven and she died. My heart just droped.
I went there in 8th grade too. Damn. Mine was a little boy who was 6 and he was trying to escape the concentration camp but got shot when he was found.
I went years ago when I was in high school. The card I got a little girl, too. She was 3 and she died in the gas chambers.
Serenity113 :'(
Same I was in 7rlth grade and almost cried because of the gas chamber and it reminds me of boy in the striped pajamas
Same here I got a card of a 15 year old boy from Poland, gassed like the rest, very sad
1:50 - 2:10 broke me. He relized that there was other people such as his innocent child was killed by the Nazis after getting off the train.
That part gets me everytime.
Long Schnozzed Tribesman are u really that ignorant
I went to the museum of tolerence... I got a little girl aged 8 with dreams of being a Hollywood star she was a young Shirley Temple... She died after Auschwitz on a train... I bawled my eyes out i will never forget that trip
I went to that museum in 8th grade and got a little 8-year-old girl who passed away too.
I have to be honest Everytime I see this movie I realize how some teacher keep their word and never give up on there students at all. Even when students just feel like giving up the teachers will not let them give up and have them graduate
She tought them compassion and to see that they are not alone in their suffering... I also want to be like that...
love this movie. I'll never forget this one.
I won't cry. I'm strong. I can do this.
"My little boy died.."
*Cries profusely*
If kids were taught this kind of thing in school from a young age all over the world we might have a chance to wipe out hate. What's happening to this world is crazy, all the millions of people in all the wars died in vain because we haven't learnt. We are still fighting. Heart breaking :(
Claire The previous generations shoulda definitely been taught better as kids. It's today's generation of kids that are learning what's important & will help shape up the for future generations
Sadly, teaching us this this stuff won't stop wars and it wont stop hate. It's a bit more complicated that we haven't been that that they're bad things.
I agree with you both
Your right chick
We learn these Things in Germany when we are in 7 grade. We even go to concentraitions camps. It's horrible there.
Miss G, major respect.
This scene gets me all the time. That visit was something I will never forget.
I've been to that museum. Sad how during the holocaust, no one was safe! In fact, women, children, elderly, and disabled were the easiest targets.
I still remember how I felt the day I visited the museum. I always told myself, the next time you feel like you're having a bad day...remember what you learned here.
Wish they made a museum like this to teach about what natives been through in residential school or for African Americans what they went through for slavery
Omg that would be amazing.
This is a strong,, and very good idea. It has to be made to happen, though. Even hate, compassion and learning, they have to be proactively be done, every day. Most people do and learn and see, but they grow passive or assume knowing is enough to prevent hate, violence, or worse from happening. I agree that museums recording residential school experiences, and slavery need to be made, but people need to actively assemble the people to create them.
Or Communist socialism. It's no wonder we have so many people supporting it, because we don't teach the horrors of Stalin, Mao, Venezuela etc.
Also, we do teach about African American History in school as well as the Holocaust, it's practically bombarded into our heads till the end of grade school, though not much on Native Americans. Problem is, people are using this knowledge to hate white people. So the whole point of knowing this is to never let hate allow this to happen again, but we're raising people to hate white people today who had nothing to do with the atrocities of the past.
@@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0 Governor DeSantis recently signed a bill mandating Florida schools to teach about the evils of communism.
@@mattprssmn4 that's very good, because people need to learn that communism has brought so much murder and pain just like fascism
The part they gets me the most is the end quote “I can’t believe Mrs. G did all this for us.” She did it because she truly cared for her students and she never gave up on them. ❤️
I went to a museum like that. I got a 10 year old polish girl. She died in the camps from a disease
Alex Gutierrez you’re a disgusting human being for advocating the death of a child.
@@Anonymous-xm7rf my daddy owns your daddy
Selena Pama don’t respond to his stupidity.hes just a troll
@@greenhornet8262 do you even know your daddy's name?
@@alexg2903 stfu you sound like a dumbass and your embarrassing yourself you disgusting peice of shit
I love how that our main characters don’t speak during this scene, it allows them and the audience to just absorb the power of the museum
this was so powerful it made me cry
Pitying the Jews is what they want so they can control you even MORE!
David Smith plz dtop
@@flyergp65 I'm Jewish
camel nat me too
David Smith stfu they’re not discrediting their experiences. She taught them that they’re not alone in their struggles and ppl have made it out on the other side. She also taught compassion and that there were so many innocent lives lost
I met a survivor too his name was Eugene his father told him never stand in the back of line and never stand in the front either
Basically it means blend in. Don’t stand out in anyway.
Went to this museum in 7th grade. I don’t remember if the kid on the card I got survived, maybe because I was too scared to even find out. Either way, going to this museum hits you hard, really gets you to understand how much the victims suffered.
I went to the Museum in 7th grade as well. I got a kid named Peter Somogyi, I don't know if he survived
@@ariwin4385 He survived. I looked up his name and he and his brother, from what I read, were liberated from Auschwitz. He's 91 years old now
I know right
Man i remember seeing this as a teenager and absorbing the message but it never really hit me hard. Even now as an adult i go back and watch it for inspiration and motivation but now that I’m a older, it all just hits so much harder. Age really leaves us more vulnerable and aware of what more awful things went on than we were teens. It rips my heart in half.
I saw this in my English class in highschool. It hurt my heart knowing that this was the life a lot of teens my age had to live. I used to see a gun just as dangerous yet intriguing thing. To other my age, it was a tool that helped them survive till tomorrow. I cried a bit cause I thought of all the times I complained about like the food I ate for supper or just stupid bullshit. Then I realized wow, I was so lucky I was able to even have a nice home cooked meal and not just a microwave burrito or if I even got to eat at all that night. Then at the museum when these kids learned what horros the Nazis did, and all those they killed whether it was men women or kids. It didnt matter. Sometimes if kids wouldnt join the German army the SS would kill their parents in front of them. I read a story of a little boy who refused to join. They hung his mother in front of him and forced him to watch. They then offed his sister too. I cried reading that story just thinking about how wicked and vile your heart has to be to throw a child down stairs and hang a boys mother in front of him. I could almost feel that pain. I think we all come together when we realize how awful things can get when we fight
@@synshenron798
Thank you
i met a holocaust survivor a few days ago at a Ralph’s store . I saw his number tattoos & i went up to him & i asked him how he got that (i knew already, i had no idea how to approach him without being rude) & he asked me if i knew a place named auschwitz & i said yes. he told me he was there for 3 years. I didn’t get his name and didn’t get much information after that. I cried and I hugged him & told him I was sorry that this happened to him & he is very strong. Every movie I saw, everything i’ve read and learned & it was in front of me. I couldn’t believe it, it was truly a beautiful treasured moment for me .
What did he told you? When you hug him... Sorry about my english
@@lilianap7083 they married
This movie inspired me to be a teacher. I wanted to be the kind of teacher who keeps the lesson interesting, but more I wanted to be a teacher who listens to my students as much as they could listen to me. Be able to know where one student excels, where another has trouble, and be able to adjust my help accordingly. Find their passion and encourage it. Give my attention and my aid if they need to tell me any trouble outside my class, or even outside the school. It's gonna be difficult to get to that place, but I've started my first year of college on the path.
❤️
It's not going to be easy. But I hope you'll endure till the end. Imagine the fulfillment. 😊
You think the Holocaust was so long ago or distant and unrelated to us, until you see an older person who could be your grandparent have a number tattoo on their arm. You realize, damn it wasn't that long ago. They could be someone's grandparent.
Here in the Netherlands we Just had 4 and 5 may.
4th of may, we remember the victoms of all war, but most assepcialy WW2.
If there are still people alive and able to come to the big national ceremony, they do. In schools from a verry young age we lern about it. At the seramony kids lay flowers and a Young adult reads a selfmade text.
At 20:00 the whole country go's silent for 2 minutes. People stop what they are doing, stand still,stop talking, and remember. Even the trem stops riding for 2 minutes. The rest of the evening the tv shows practicly nothing but WW2 related content.
Than, at 5 may (the Day we where libarated 76 years ago) we selebrate. There are festivals all over the country. Music, food, dancing, big freedom fire's, parades, people off all walks of life come together to selebrate the fact that we are free.
My country makes shure we don't forget, and I am incredably proud of it.
This movie will go down as one of my favorite films to have seen as a kid and tween. I personally think the message of this scene is two things: what happens to some people can happen to others, and when horrible events do happen, there aren't any real divisions. You just feel horrified and numb at the results. Seeing these kids realize the scope of this in such a great analogy really shook me, and I'll remember it.
I was today years old when I realized that Joe Seo, the actor who plays Kyler in Cobra Kai, was also one of the Asian students in this movie. Over fifteen years later, he still looks the same. He played a high school student then and now. Crazy.
I was surprised too. Joe Seo is ageless like a vampire or immortal person.
It touching to see a group of young adults connecting with the survivors of the holocaust knowing that both struggled to get through in dealing with hardship, loss, and pain. When I went the to Museum of Tolerance in high school, I went with a group that was spoiled and privileged and didn't care much about the exhibit.
i just went to the museum yesterday and i got the little girl at 0:51 and she died. her and her mother were together in the camp.
wow I wanted to do some research on this museum cause in two weeks I'm going on a field trip here but wow this is really sad and I want to learn more about this
*Can’t believe ms G did all this for us.
The appreciation and graciousness.. ❤️
The gangs in Chicago need to be taught like this about history of biggest gangs the nazis.
Second biggest. Commies beat them out.
I went to the same museum when I was 13. I was in a class of 50 kids. We all remember it top to bottom. I’d never forget it. I still remember the fate of my little Romanian child at the end. 😭She tried to survive, disguised herself as a boy. But before the camp could be liberated, she was gassed. In my class of 50, only 1 made it out alive. So watching this brought all the tears back. 😭😭😭😭
i know that usa still has a big problem with racism, im from germany, so please dont be offended, we have been worse, but we learned from our mistakes.
you know who played a big roll in our change , USA.
i hear a lot of shit these days about you and thanks to your elected president i think it can be true, but i dont want to be mean and talk about that.
i want to talk about you, your people. America is great, because it is so open (please dont build a wall).
we loved you even in germany we HAD american flags on our tshirt, that was because of my grandmothers generation.
she told me how great you are, how much you shared and you gave us, we were the bad boys, but she remembered, you being so kind.
it wasnt just you who saved my country from itself, but the americans were here.
and i want to thank you for that.
be proud of that, you did good, but please remember why america is great, it was because you cared about others. you were great (and i think you still are, if youre not orange), because you made us believe it.
please dont build a wall. we did it and it was horrible wrong, please learn from our mistakes.
i still hear from friends who have been in usa that you are, almost creepy, welcoming and friendly. stay like that please.
thank you for your kind words
As an American, from the people who I have talked to, most of us don't want a wall. Trump is the only person who does the most part. I hope the wall does not come into fruition and get our National Parks and Forrests back permanently. Thank you for your kindness.
I'm sorry but America is not going to be no third world shithole like it's becoming. A wall is for the best
@Anja If you don't want a wall, how about you just leave your front door open and offer anyone to come into your home.
We impeaching him! Lol 😂
As an American, we remember the Holocaust and keep sacred the memories of the loved ones lost, learn about the atrocities, and grieve still about this event, we cannot forget other atrocious events our history like Tulsa, Oklahoma race/ Black Wall Street massacre in 1921. It is akin to Kristallnacht. Vile events that both need to be in the history books. There are a lot of other events (Armenian, Rwandan, etc that important too) that I have learned, but never heard of the Tulsa violence until recently (about 15 years ago. It is not the only event as lynchings, Emmett Till, why we celebrate Juneteenth, and many other things, the treatment of indigenous people, history needs to be more balanced and addressed in history 3:56 books I am not some liberal nut advocating the “woke” rewriting of history, but including would be beneficial. Why did I learn about Kristallnacht, but not Black Wall Street massacre?
“Why did I learn about kristlenacht but not the black Wall Street massacre” it’s very simple when you find out that the certain group of “victims” in the holocaust are the exact same group of people who control our banks , media and government it all becomes very simple.
Such beautiful music, really impacts the feeling of the moment, the movie, the characters. I wish I could find the song.
Any surviving Holocaust survivors today who could tell you their story, they were children no older than 10 at the time. Imagine the horrors they had to witness at such young ages.
came to realization that I read eli' s story it was called night or something
Emma Caldera I read that book in the 10th grade. It was so sad and heartbreaking
It was called night by Eli wiesel, made me cry
Emma Caldera May he RIP
I read it in High School Freshman Year and I read A Picture Book of Anne Frank in 5th Grade
i can see how high schoolers can handle. these kinds of places but not 8th graders. still not mature enough
rainbow snout is my school just went to the Holocaust Museum in DC. We went after seeing the Arlington cemetery so that had us in a somber mood. We are more mature than you think.
By the time you're near 10 yrs old, kids are mature enough to understand. I know I went to the holocaust museum at d.c too, when I was in the 5th grade. Very sad and at the end everyone wrote a note on this bulletin board they had before . Lots of notes from kids to adults saying "I hope something like this never happens again " etc
I went to this exact museum as an 8th grader 5 years ago. Although many of the students didnt put any thought to it many of us did
If kids their age lived through it, they're old enough to learn about it.
I Live in Israel. Every year there is a memorial ceremony In every school, elementry to high school. in my school you were allowed to be at the cermony since third grade. you don't learn about it or talk about sa much as we do, but we know about it from a very young age, ans i belive it is very important. Yizchor
In 8th grade my class met a Holocaust Survivor after watching a documentary about his camp. He along with a group of boys were in a camp until the "doctor of death" for reasons only known to him, let them go. He ended up in Canada and decided to come down to tell his story. I'll never forget that day.
Watching this clip reminds me of when I went to the National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC a few yrs back. Not only does it hit you hard, but they are museums of remembrance and reflection, and they really make you think. Also, when Ms. G reminds that student to remove his hat while in the museum reminds us that not only are you indoors, but you are in a living memorial and you have to be respectful.
As the students can see, they aren't the only ones who suffered by humanity's evil
The scene is powerful, but good gods, the score during it. The violin sounds like it's crying. Every time I hear it, I want to reach through time and space to hug everybody--the students, the survivors, the victims. The collective evil of the Holocaust is something that must not be forgotten, especially in this day and age with so many people either glorifying it or trying to say it didn't happen.
Just like if you watch Schindler's List and you hear the violin solo. It really gets to you.
One of the most powerful scenes of the movie!
I just went to the museum same exact one today. so grateful to meet 2 of the survivor.
I got to a Museum like this in Germany (because I'm from Germany) we learned many thing about what happened there and we needed to search some people and their life stories in the camps. On this day I found a relative from me who was related to me from my mothers side. She was only 12 years old and got shot when she tried to escape. She would be 93 this year and be my great great great aunt...
I like this scene because it shows that their problems, struggles, and messed up lives in a free country are nothing compared to the lives those who lived during WWII and the Holocaust. As much as they complain about their lives and attack other people for being different, there are other people who had it far worst then them. This movie is powerful and needs to be watched by everyone.
Missed message but ok
Movies like this doesn't have to be Oscar Nominations it all about powerful message, inspire, seeing and understanding, struggle what kids go through living in hood(project)
The violin playing at the beginning.. Just kills me, sad moment, sad past and heartbreaking music
They did something like this at a museum once for the Titanic. You get a passport of a passenger and a few info about them. At the end you see if your person lived or died. I got a newly wed woman from Italy who was traveling with her husband to the states to start a new life. She was the only one that made it.
I can't imagine going to this museum to find out if the child you had lived or not. I have nieces and nephews all under the age of 8...I can't imagine losing a child during that time. Rip to those poor soul
One of the most powerful scenes. Makes me choke up and cry every time I watch it.
No teacher told me this story none. They hide this story until a friend recommended for us to watch.
FUCK ! GOOSEBUMPS ALL OVER
Probably one of the best masterpieces in movie industry in the last Decade
PERIOD !
When we read Night by Elie Wiesel, my class was very respectful, but I cried.
We need more teachers like her in this world. Most teachers now seems to care for just a few moments then when they see no progress happening, they give up on that student.
I think Whoopi Goldberg needs to see this scene
I went there. My card was a little girl named Helen. She was killed upon arrival to the death camp.
The point in history is to teach our younger generations to do better that we did.. history has a dark past that gets brighter as we age. I hope one day we will just accept everything wrong that we have done in the world and just strive for a better future.
I remember going there and getting my lady, I can’t remember her name but I remember her story, and what she looked like. She had two braids and a sweet smile. She was working in a factory but she got sick and was sent to the hospital, the person in charge dragged her out of the hospital and put her back to work, she was able to pass a test to prove that she was not sick and that’s how she survived. But she absolutely survived and I will always remember her
Seeing this video makes me cry cuz innocent children was killed by the Nazis cuz they was Jewish or didn't have blonde hair and blue eyes it's a emotional scene😣😣😣😣 and it boils me with pure anger at the same time cuz I hate racist groups like the Nazis or Aryan brotherhood the hate will never go with the Aryan brotherhood
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Ladevious Blanton
Yes sad! Discrimination is always and will always be alive and well. It's more contagious than any deadly virus.
Growing up, I use to think that the US was the only country in the world who discriminates and stereo types. But this time in history in Europe proves otherwise.
It is an afront to those poor souls that their people in Israel are now perpetrating these horrors on others.
maybe this is just a movie but this really happens in real life and sometimes i think "ah man what is happening to this world" im happy that i was not in the war or "holocaust time"
I thins as a teacher it was brilliant idea to show them holocaust meusium so they relat themselves with the suffring and can learn resilience.
My history teacher of when I was 14, took us to the Shoah Museum in Paris (I live in france).
We met a survivor of the Holocaust after that.
The moral of the day, young people:
No matter how hard you have it, there have been many others who have it worse and can never even speak a word about it.
Lesson over.
blackice Wow you actually missed the point
that's a reach
abdul majeed stfu im actually arabic and I hate holocaust deniers like you. Fucking libtard with tin foil hat.
i don't think that was the exact message here. Those kids still had it pretty hard and I don't believe the teacher was trying to make the students feel that their struggles weren't significant.
blackice The actual moral the movie wants to show is simply:
Be tolerant. People filled with hate started wars. You should learn from their mistakes to create a hopeful future.
At the beginning of the tour they give you a card with the child’s picture on it you could find out who they were and what camp they were censored to and at the end of the tour you can find out if they survived I got a little girl from Italy
I was stationed in Virginia and my friends made me go to a holocaust museum in DC… I have never cried so hard in my life
We go and visit the concentration camps when we are 15 years old, we leave for a week or two to germany and poland. I will never forget the piles of shoes. So many shoes.. I went to Stutthof with my class. But we start to learn about it in elementary school here in Norway. My grandfather survived being in concentrations camps through out the whole war, he was polish. It made him mad and evil later, he would beat my mother and her brother with belts. He broke my mothers toes, cooked her rabbit and made her eat it. I blame the nazis, i think they destroyed him. Some good must have made my norwegian grandmother marry him post war. My grandfather was 17 when the war started.
I have family that escaped Germany right before they started actually collecting Jewish people for the camps. My great grandfather and his cousin were the only 2 of their family that survived because of it. They were snuck onto a cargo ship and were brought in through New York.
I would love to do something like this one day. I am fascinated when it comes to all types of history. I might completely cry though... So horrible what happened to them :(
I just met Elizabeth today 😊
Nobody would have ever told these kids about the world at large so most of them sadly didn't even know what the Holocaust was, they were told they would never amount to anything so what would be the point of teaching them anything. But Erin cared to teach them she wanted them to know they were important and that they could be and do anything they dreamed of.
I remember in 8th grade learning about Anna frank and the holocaust. I was so sad and yet so curious to learn more about it and other stories and the influences. In 2019 I went to Poland and took a tour it was surreal, extremely sad just standing on the same soil was heartbreaking knowing what had happened and the brutality and what the Germans did then was disheartening, I felt disgusting that they tried to cover up their crimes.
I read the book when I was in high school.
My family and I went to Amsterdam during holidays years ago and we visited Anne Frank's house (I live in France)
My mom had me watching documentaries at a young age knew all about the holocaust before they thought it in school...x x x x
I went to one of these museums in Washington DC, it was sad. Just being in one of the trailers (or whatever you call them) gave me chills. There was even a room where they had all the shoes that they wore and clothes as well before they you know :(
Kitty Vamp I went to the Washington DC one it’s crazy to know how a white supremacist went in there to kill others to prove the holocust was fake also almost punch a white girl in the face because she got bumped by two girls by mistake and she went “these people just keep bumping into me “ they were Asian and it brother me how we were in a of remembrance and she acted out
I went to that museum years ago. I will never forget the room full of shoes. The display is open-air so you not only see the shoes but smell them, a musty scent of old leather, and it hits you that every pair of those shoes belonged to a person who was horribly murdered. Fuck the Nazis and fuck all the modern white supremacists trying to glorify them or say these disgusting things never happened. Yes, they did.
I’ve been to the Museum Of Tolerance. Oooh my god immediately you are depressed when you enter.
My freshman year of college, I took a class called Film Appreciation. We watched movies, and the professor would pause during scenes he wanted to speak about. We watched films like The Graduate etc, but we watched Schindler's List. I don't know why he selected that film, the ENTIRE auditorium was in tears 😭😭
I remember when I first went there. When we went into the gas chamber replica I remember being so scared when I saw it. I knew it was fake and what it was at 8th grade, but just seeing it made my soul go cold. 2 of my friends walk with me in there hand in hand to help me.
The thing that makes me sad the most is I can’t remember what happened to the person who’s card I got
this gets deep very quickly and gets people emotional :(
My class went to auschwitz when i was in high school (not sure if it was junior high or hs, since we count it different in my country. We were 15-16) We knew what it was, but had a childlike approach to it, and looked at it like a vacation of sorts. But then we went through the "Arbeit macht frei" gates, and saw the horrors... we were humbled so fast, and i will never forget that trip. What stuck with me, was the nail scratches on the shower walls. I can't get that out of my head, til this day.
My wife and I visited Dachau Concentration Camp back in 1991. And we saw those ovens. And then…I “lost it”. We had to get out of there quick! The whole experience was so intense.
I remember going with school to berlin. We gone to on of the camps in the area. I was in a group with my history teacher. She told us a lot about how life was in the camps and we desided to try some things for ourselves. Like we had no jackets on and stood in the cold for 10 minutes. We weren’t allowed to move or talk. We were so happy so could put our jackets on. We later found out that one of the other groups made a picture of us. And if you ask the teachers in our school about Berlin and ask to show pictures, they always show that one. Why? Because it is real. This scene reminded me of that. And I remembered how lucky we are to be FREE!
Thats nothing compared to what they endured.. there is a war in Syria that have made people refugees and the holocaust survivors want to help them because what they see reminds them of the holocaust.
The song?
The music for this scene is by film composer Mark Isham.
So heartbreaking. Super disappointed and upset how one current administration can take a whole nation back by a million steps we so accomplished to try not to go back to: discrimination against anyone suffering or different. I finished my last research paper last week for my legal aspects class. I chose "How the World Can Unite to Fight Against Racism"
Before offering solutions, I took my audience back to the historical context of racism and discrimination. Besides Slavery, Civil Rights Movement, United Farm workers Movement, and the atrocities of the Holocaust. When I heard the current events of immigrants being shut out of this country, I think back to seeing in history classes how immigrants reached Ellis Island and seeing the Statue of Liberty.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore,” she wrote. “Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” (Statue of liberty quote)
Why can't those words welcome those dreamers wanting a better but safe life? With the exception of Native Americans, we are all children of immigrants. But we are also American citizens who should support those by helping others with humanitarian assistance and compassion.
I met the author, Erin Gruell, of "The Freedom Writers" (which was turned into a screenplay for a movie)in 2012 at an education rally for teachers. I love how she believed in all children of different races. She educated those who turned to mockery of another individual by teaching them about what happened to the Jews before and during WWII. She talked about how a cruel dictator, such as Hitler and his followers, the Third Reich, try to distinguish the innocent Jews, polish Jews, homosexuals, and even those with disabilities by murdering all. Why? Simply because he didn't like them because he hated them, mocked them, took away precious things they loved, and because they were DIFFERENT. THIS WAS THE HOLOCAUST. We can't go back to that kind of hatred. I hope Congress, the current administration and even Trump should see this museum and really stop and think what his actions can bring. We are ALL GOD'S CHILDREN. Just so angry seeing how mocking others, hateful rhetoric, can lead to hardship, suffering, tears from those different from another, sadness, and senseless tragedy. Nobody should be left behind or forgotten.
This museum can teach the world about being compassionate towards anyone different.
In 1995 my great aunt lived across the street from a Holocaust museum in Miami Beach Florida
In the front of the museum there was a Statue of a gigantic Hand and arm as if it was trying to reach the sky.
We went into the museum. and it was very emotional seeing the horror that the JEWS, GYSPIES, HOMOSELUALS,,YOUNG CHILDREN, THE ELDERLY, and the DISABLED PEOPLE YOUNG AND OLD. Who were tortured and eventually murdered.
For what? Hate!
NEVER AGAIN!
I live in France and when I was 14 my history teacher took us in Paris where we visited the Shoah Memorial and met a man who survived of the Holocaust.
The survivors look very young for their age
DanGrey32 "Survivors"
DanGrey32 they are actors. The movie takes place in 1992
Since it took place in the 1990s it would've been less than 50 years after 1945. They were likely only in their early 60s.
When i went there in middle school, the card i got was of a young man who survived the camp and moved to the USA, only to be killed years later by some punk trying to rob him.
I get that why she showed the cruelty of the world but why did it break them so much that their Broken world didn't matter anymore... why didn't they lose hope ...
Maybe because they really realize what it means to be hate because of one awful thing
I got to go when I was visiting friends a few years back. I got a little boy. He was killed upon arrival. I sobbed and sobbed...it was truly an eye-opening and solum experience
I remember going here in high school, such an amazing and informative place
This part always tears me up
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This makes me cry almost every time, just shows the worst of humanity has. So many innocent people lost their lives
I went in 8th grade to the same museum. Never met a real survivor but ill tell you this- sitting in the room mocked up to be a gas chamber... that shit was COLD. I honestly couldn't tell if it was my own fear or the AC but standing in that room imagining what they went through... over 20 years later my stomach still drops thinking about how cold that room was. Just the emptiness and the gravity of what they must have been feeling in thier last moments... the fear the shock it really sticks with you.
Imagine meeting someone who could say they were a literal former slave as a child. Heartbreaking
I just went today to the museum, and ill never forget how it made feel.
You should see the Shoah Museum of Paris if you can, one day.
I visited it with my classmates when I was 14 (I live in France so it was easier for us). We even met a survivor.
This wonderful movie makes me feel happy to be alive in America. I know so many lost their lives due to one man's stupid ideas those poor innocent people only cause of the fact they were Jews I'm so angry about all this but I pray God has his say in all this
May God bless their souls