The flag with fifty-six stars : a gift from the survivors of Mauthausen / by Susan Goldman Rubin ; illustrated by Bill Farnsworth
- Author:
- Rubin, Susan Goldman
- Published:
- New York : Holiday House, [2005]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2005
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Physical Description:
- 40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Farnsworth, Bill, Hopkins, Lee Bennett, and Holiday House (Firm)
- Summary:
- On May 6, 1945, when members of the 11th Armored Division of the U.S. Army marched into the Mauthausen concentration camp, they were presented with an extraordinary gift. A group of prisoners, had surreptitiously pieced together a U.S. flag with an extra row of stars. Colonel Richard Seibel had the flag proudly flown over the camp as a symbol of freedom. This inspiring account of the liberation of one of the Third Reich's most infamous camps is a tribute to the humanity and hope preserved by the survivors. The paintings by Bill Farnsworth depict the events. Source notes, a bibliography, further resources, an index, and a reproduction of the actual flag are included.
- Subject(s):
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)—Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945—Concentration camps—Liberation—Germany—Juvenile literature
- Flags—United States—Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945—Concentration camps—Liberation—Germany
- Flags—United States
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)—Juvenile literature.#x1E;21.
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp.)#x1E; 0.
- Mauthausen (Concentration camp)
- Liberty
- Flags
- Germany
- United States
- Concentration camps
- World War, 1939-1945—Prisoners and prisons
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 0823416534 (hardcover)
9780823416530 (hardcover)
0823420191 (pbk.)
9780823420193 (pbk.) - Collection:
- Lee Bennett Hopkins Collection.
- Note:
- Rare Books copy: (3rd printing--number line beginning with "3" on t.p. verso); in glossy color pictorial boards and original dust jacket; formerly owned by Lee Bennett Hopkins; PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by illustrator on title page: "For Lee [Lee Bennett Hopkins] Oct. 2012. All the very best -- [signed] Bill Farnsworth."
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-38) and index.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Rare Books copy: Gift of Lee Bennett Hopkins.
- Awards:
- Sydney Taylor Notable Book, Older, 2006.
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