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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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