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Name:	Flag with Fifty-Six Stars: A gift from the Survivors of Mauthausen
Product Code:	9780823420193
Description:	By Susan Goldman Rubin Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth
Product Detail:	When the Americans liberated Austria's Mauthausen concentration camp, a group of survivors presented the commander with an American flag they had secretly sewn from scraps, a symbol of their hope and gratitude. Now that flag (which the prisoners inadvertently made with an extra row of stars) hangs in Los Angeles' Simon Wiesenthal Center and Library Archives, named in honor of the famous Mauthausen survivor. Through the story of that flag, this stirring picture book for older children tells the history of the brutal labor camp and its liberation. Rubin draws on eyewitness accounts and extensive interviews with liberators and prisoners, including Wiesenthal, to document the suffering, the resistance, and, finally, the hope. Farnsworth's somber, dark, unframed paintings show the camp and the marching laborers as well as close-ups of emaciated people sewing in the shadows--and then, free at last.
Features:	Paper 40 pages
Restrictions:	Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Price:	$6.95

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