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My human nature and my moral outrage about the Holocaust make it easy for me to imagine that I would have responded courageously to protect the lives of innocent Jews. However, only 0.5 percent of the population risked their lives to help save Jews, leaving 99.5 percent of the population in the categories of bystander or oppressor, or somewhere in between. Given those numbers, would I really have risked my own life or the lives of my family members to protect the life of a stranger? What made the 0.5 percent distinct? Why did they have the moral courage to risk everything to save their Jewish neighbors? 

Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel notes ways we can, in daily life, build the muscles of moral courage that historic moments of crisis demand.