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Miep Gies — Dutch Celebrity born on February 15, 1909, died on January 11, 2010. Hermine Santruschitz, better known as Miep Gies, was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and four other Jews from the Nazis in an annex above Anne's father's business premises during World War II. She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at ...
Jan 26, 2012 · Freedom writers è un film tratto da una storia vera, e narra la vicenda di una coraggiosa insegnante, Erin Gruwell, che osò credere con tutto il cuore in un ...
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Themes and Colors Key. Summary. Analysis. As Ms. Gruwell prepares for another year of teaching, she describes her summer. After giving a seminar at National University on teaching teenagers to read, she is offered a job teaching education classes a couple of times per week. She is able to save up enough money to go visit Zlata and Miep in Europe.
Freedom Writers is a 2007 drama film written and directed by Richard LaGravenese and starring Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey and Mario. It is based on the book The Freedom Writers Diary by teacher Erin Gruwell who wrote the story based on Woodrow Wilson Classical High School in Long Beach, California.
Two kids handle a newly acquired gun, which suddenly goes off and kills one of the boys. (He’s shown slumped over on a blood-stained bench.) A female student’s mother is described as being “half-beaten to death” one night, and we see a man strike her a few times (drawing blood) and beat the student with a belt.
Miep Gies gives a firsthand account of the capture of Anne Frank. She is regarded as heroic by the students of Ms. Gruwell's class because she and her family hid the Franks in their house during Nazi occupation. Miep refuses to take the title of "hero" and states it was the right thing to do.
