Cover of The Flag With Fifty-six Stars

The Flag With Fifty-six Stars

A Gift from the Survivors of Mauthausen

by Susan Goldman Rubin

2005 40 pages eng

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 …

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