Surviving is living in hope that better things are yet to come in your life. Right now in our country people survive on hope and the belief that people are good and will help them. People survive when they are homeless on the streets only thanks to good-hearted people who give them food or money to buy clothes for the winter. Gerta survived thanks to her family and friends. Anne Frank survived because she believed that "Despite all the bad that happens in the world, I still believe that all people are good at heart." ~ Anne FrankThe Franks were a Jewish family living during the Holocaust. They went into hiding because Margot had received a letter and would be taken to a concentration camp and forced into labor. The Franks together with the VannDanns, Mrs. VannDann, Mr. VannDann, Peter and Mouschi, Peter's cat. They lived together for a while and then let another Jewish man, Mr. Dussell, a dentist, stay with them. Their survival was really based on people and others. The biggest help was Miep who brought them food and got them the things they need like shampoo, nail polish, book and other things. They had different ways of getting along like Margot for example, she got along thanks to her studies. Anne coped by writing in her diary and telling him everything that happened. They all survived with the hope that the Allied forces, those fighting against Germany in the war, would arrive to save them before the Nazis found their secret annex. Another Jewish girl, Gerta Weissman Klein, lived during the Holocaust. Gerda Klein, a fifteen-year-old. old Jewish girl. He had a brother, a mother and a father. To which all were taken away from her. His brother was... in the center of the card... then the Allied forces. I have a connection with Gerta because she survived with determination, hope and her friends. My friends let all the bad things in the world go away and let me have fun, because they help me be cheerful and happy. People are homeless and poor right now, but they still survive thanks to people who are good at heart. They give them hope that they can survive. Gerta Klein and Anne Frank survived with countless reasons, but the greatest was hope, the hope that better things were yet to come. People are struggling to survive and have been, but you can help make a difference in their lives. Works Cited The Diary of Anne Frank. Dir Jon Jones Smithson Productions, 1996. DVDGoodrich, Frances. Hackett, Albert. "The Diary of Anne Frank" Holt McDougal Anthology, Literature Grade 8Houghton Mifflin Harcourt