Freedom Writers - visit to the Museum of Tolerance (Simon Wiesenthal Center), Los Angeles 

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.

"my little boy died" right in the feels

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.

Alejandro's face after saying "he was only five" made me cry😭

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 won't cry. I'm strong. I can do this. "My little boy died.." *Cries profusely*

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 .

this was so powerful it made me cry

love this movie. I'll never forget this one.

I went to a museum like that. I got a 10 year old polish girl. She died in the camps from a disease

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

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.

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.

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 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. 😭😭😭😭

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.

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.

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.

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

I just went to the museum same exact one today. so grateful to meet 2 of the survivor.

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.

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.

As the students can see, they aren't the only ones who suffered by humanity's evil

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.

I remember going to a museum with my family it made me so emotional.

“My little boy died” shattered my heart.

I remember going here in high school, such an amazing and informative place

came to realization that I read eli' s story it was called night or something

FUCK ! GOOSEBUMPS ALL OVER Probably one of the best masterpieces in movie industry in the last Decade PERIOD !

I went there. My card was a little girl named Helen. She was killed upon arrival to the death camp.

Imagine meeting someone who could say they were a literal former slave as a child. Heartbreaking

This movie had me in tears, even this part 💜

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.

One of my favorite scenes 🙏🏾

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’ve been to the Museum Of Tolerance. Oooh my god immediately you are depressed when you enter.

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'm lucky I found an inspiration to change the lives of the children. Im in my 3rd year in education.

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.

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?

May God bless their souls

The song?

Ive been to a halocaust meseum in isreal. Its strikes you to the core. They had a building deticated to the children. Its a dark room with lightbulbs to represent each child. They list each childs name and their age i dont remember how long it takes to get through the whole list but i think its at least a year. It was beautiful but incredible sad at the same time. Brought tears to my eyes.

“I wanna go again!” -Eric Cartman 2002.

That soundtrack tho

im going to cali soon hopefully i can visit

just went there on a field trip today

The Holocaust was undoubtedly the worst event ever to happen in world history! Every time I see those anti-Semitic posters, I seethe with rage.

Sometimes I think about what would happen if someone tries to hurt Mrs.G the whole class will go after them

Anyone find that slow song yet??? The one in this video

Idk why Tucson Az people hate this moment. So cruel in them.

What's does kids in the papers name

I love coming back to this movie always always hit the feels 🙏🏻 I had the pleaser about ten years ago of meeting a lovely lady who was part of this time , we heard her story I’ve never heard anything more inspiring nothing more amazing then the strength this women had to survive at such a young age such pain and loss , that day always stuck with me and my English teacher reminds me so much of this teacher I’m glad I met my teacher I’m glad iam who I am because of this experience

We need way more teachers like Ms. G

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.

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.

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...

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 :(

Miss G, major respect.

This scene gets me all the time. That visit was something I will never forget.

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

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 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

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.

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.

*Can’t believe ms G did all this for us. The appreciation and graciousness.. ❤️

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

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.

The gangs in Chicago need to be taught like this about history of biggest gangs the nazis.

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.

Such beautiful music, really impacts the feeling of the moment, the movie, the characters. I wish I could find the song.

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.

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.

One of the most powerful scenes of the movie!

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.

i can see how high schoolers can handle. these kinds of places but not 8th graders. still not mature enough

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...

The violin playing at the beginning.. Just kills me, sad moment, sad past and heartbreaking music

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)

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.

When we read Night by Elie Wiesel, my class was very respectful, but I cried.

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

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 😊

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

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

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.

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 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

It is an afront to those poor souls that their people in Israel are now perpetrating these horrors on others.

I think Whoopi Goldberg needs to see this scene

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 :(

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

this gets deep very quickly and gets people emotional :(

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.

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

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!

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 😭😭