MY SISTER MY HERO: A TALE OF HOLOCAUST HEROISM is a historical fiction based on a true story. It follows the journey of Salome Welner, a young French teenager, from a life of privilege to a prison camp, to the woods with the Resistance, to Maille on the day of the massacre there, and finally to America. During her adventures, Salome saves the life of a friend, and numerous times saves her little sister Alice, to whom she becomes both a mother and a hero.