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Cynthia
Polansky's
(Martin & Lawrence Press, 2007)
ISBN-13:
978-0-9773898-2-7
Distributed by
BluSky Media
Group
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Ingram, Baker & Taylor, Partners, Bookazine
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excellent
YA companion reading to
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl |
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"...a brilliant literary
historical fiction narrative...You will feel an
inspirational uplift unmatched when you read this...I
couldn’t put this book down as I read in awe about this
exceptional woman, so plan on a late night."
--
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ORIGIN OF THE
NOVEL:
"I first heard this
story while volunteering at the touring photographic exhibit, Anne
Frank in the World. One day, second-generation Holocaust
survivor Mieneke Gold spellbound visitors with vignettes of her aunt
Sofie, who had voluntarily accompanied her six stepdaughters to
Auschwitz. "Tante Soof," as Mieneke called her, made a
deep impression and I felt her story needed to be told to the world.
While the basic events in this novel are factual, some literary
license with the narrative has been exercised. Most names are
fictitious, as are some characters. With very few exceptions,
however, descriptions of Nazi atrocities are neither exaggerated nor
illusory. Not all may have been inflicted on the real Tante Soof,
but they did indeed happen to some victims somewhere. Each
survivor's story is one of victory, a unique tale that bears telling.
Far Above Rubies is one such victory."
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