Heroes are not born, they are grown and shaped into heroes by the environment around them and the choices they make along the way, no matter what hardships they may ensure on their path to heroism. Heroism should be accompanied by experiences that humble the hero or even by death from a brace achievement that people remeber them as. With the world on the brink of a mass genocide some people stood and watched evil unfold in front of their own eyes. Jewish people looked in horror every corner of Europe but some stood in front of Hitler's Third Reich. In the novel, "Number the stars" the main character's older sister risked her own life for the sake of the Jewish community and her own family. She was fighting alongside with the resistance
