It proved to be a huge bonding experience for them," explains Swank. Hilary Swank commented on this experience in an interview, "When Erin took the kids to the Holocaust Museum, The actors in the film also visited the Museum of Tolerance. The museum also features exhibits on civil rights and contemporary human rights violations that exist in the world today. As we see in the film, the museum focuses largely on helping visitors understand the true impact of the Holocaust. In real life, Erin took her students to the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Listen to a Zlata Filipovic Interview (22:03)ĭid Erin really take her students to a Holocaust museum? Her book is titled Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo. Like Anne Frank, Zlata spent her days couped up in a room (of an apartment), often never seeing daylight. When Zlata was only 11-years-old, she lived through constant bombings and snipers, not to mention severe food and water shortages. Zlata Filipovic has been described as the new Anne Frank. Which were eventually compiled into the book "The Freedom Writers Diary".
In reality, this is what prompted Erin to encourage the kids to write their own diaries, Erin and her students persuaded Zlata to fly to Long Beach, California to visit them at Woodrow Wilson High School. Erin also wrote to Zlata Filipovic, a Sarajevo girl who published diaries that dealt with the war in her homeland from September 1991 through October 1993. I could not save Anne's life."ĭid Erin Gruwell invite anyone else to speak to her students? "People sometimes call me a hero," says Gies. She came during the 1994/1995 school year. Miep was 87 when she came to speak at Woodrow Wilson high school in Long Beach, California.
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She turned 98-years-old in February of 2007, just several weeks after the movie Freedom Writers was released in theaters.Īs depicted in the film, the real Miep Gies did come to speak to Erin's students after they raised enough money to fly her from Amsterdam. However, the real Miep Gies is remarkably still alive today. The woman who hid Anne Frank, Miep Gies, was played by veteran stage and screen actress Pat Carroll. Erin Gruwell and her husband did divorce for reasons similar to those presented in the film ( pluggedinonline).ĭid the woman who hid Anne Frank play herself in the movie? "I'm living a life I didn't agree to." This part of the movie is true. Eventually, the two divorce with Scott telling her, In the film, as Erin Gruwell becomes more devoted to her teaching, her husband Scott starts to feel neglected. In the movie Freedom Writers, Hilary Swank's character lives with her husband Scott, played by actor Patrick Dempsey ( Grey's Anatomy). Erin also finds that her teaching job is placing a strain on her marriage to Scott Casey, a man who seems to have lost his own idealistic way in life.Was Erin Gruwell's husband in the film based on a real person? As Erin tries harder and harder to have resources provided to teach properly (which often results in her needing to pay for them herself through working second and third jobs), she seems to face greater resistance, especially from her colleagues, such as Margaret Campbell, her section head, who lives by regulations and sees such resources as a waste, and Brian Gelford, who will protect his "priviledged" position of teaching the senior honors classes at all cost. And it isn't until she provides an assignment of writing a daily journal - which will be not graded, and will remain unread by her unless they so choose - that the students begin to open up to her. It isn't until Erin holds an unsanctioned discussion about a recent drive-by shooting death that she fully begins to understand what she's up against. The only person the students hate more is Ms. The Latinos hate the Cambodians who hate the blacks and so on. Many are in gangs and almost all know somebody that has been killed by gang violence. Despite choosing the school on purpose because of its integration program, Erin is unprepared for the nature of her classroom, whose students live by generations of strict moral codes of protecting their own at all cost. For many of the existing teachers, the integration has ruined the school, whose previously stellar academic standing has been replaced with many students who will be lucky to graduate or even be literate. Idealistic Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job, that as freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School, which, two years earlier, implemented a voluntary integration program.
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