“I had the pleasure of meeting you several months ago at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, along with my two sisters. We each bought the book; I just finished it today (Wednesday, October 14, 2009).
I almost have a numbness about me to understand what your father and so many others went through…. There are no words…
I was so pleasantly surprised at the end to read that Danka is your mother.
Thank you for speaking to so many students today. Your family is an inspiration to us all. God bless”
- Phyllis Fenwick
“Sandy, the introduction to your dad's book is just wonderful. It is a message of love, history, and contemporary lessons communicated eloquently in less than two pages.”
-Gail Levinson, Arts Unbound, Orange, NJ
“I read the book over the weekend and could not put it down until I finished it and immediately gave it to my husband. It is an incredible account that is extremely well written. It should be required reading for everyone! Your father was truly an amazingly strong individual. Thank you for bringing this important book into our lives.”
-Amy B. Wallace, Strategic Planning, The New York Times, New York, NY
“What a remarkable man your father must have been. I was riveted by his story and could not put the book down!”
-Elissa Hirschberg, New York
“It has been an honor to read your father's cherished memoirs.”
-Hanna Feffer, President, Fraternal Order of Bendin-Sosnowicer, New York City
Sandy Rubenstein visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for a Book Signing in July 2008.
Dear Sandy,
If you remember, we met at the Holocaust Museum-inside the gift shop. I was the one with the three children. I very much enjoyed meeting and talking with you. I wish it could have been longer and we could have talked further.
I read your father's book, Mark It With a Stone , and found it to be excellent. I only wish that so much suffering did not take place and still cannot believe that mass genocide could take place within the 20th century. I agree with your father and Elie Wiesel in the thinking that "Not all victims were Jews, but all Jews were victims." I also believe that clearly remembering the past is one of the keys to the future.
I know that you were lucky to have a father with wisdom, intelligence and obvious caring/love for his family. Each one of our children will read his book in time and will be better people and Jews for it.
Sincerely & With Thanks,
-Kevin Kemelhar, Cleveland, Ohio
Dear Sandy,
We met recently at the USHM where you signed a copy of your father's book, Mark It With a Stone , for me. I finished reading the book last week and have been meaning to write to you since.
Your father's personal account of the Holocaust was deeply moving--- many of the images are now seared in my memory. I applaud you for keeping this history alive!
Although I cried a great deal while reading his book, my tears of sorrow turned to tears of joy when I looked at my children and thought about your Father's grandchildren..... and all of the other children who are here today through the countless miracles small and large that enabled the few to survive against all odds.
-Michael J. Kahana, Professor of Psychology and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Sandy,
Just wanted to tell you that whatever I was able to do to help you develop your site was a personal pleasure and an honor. I think your work has a very important place in our world, and I for one am very glad you took it upon yourself to enlighten and educate our young.
Please feel free to call upon me for whatever help I am able to offer.
-Sidney Cohen, Creative Technician, Apple Store, Tice's Corner, Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Sandy Rubenstein is the daughter of a survivor. On September 1, 1939, her father, Joseph Horn, began an odyssey through one of the worst atrocities in history. Horn stayed alive while his family perished, surviving stays in the Blizyn concentration camp, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen. In her new introduction, Sandy Rubenstein describes the impact of the Holocaust not only on the survivors, but on the children of survivors. Copyright 2008
From Library Journal
In this slim volume, Horn has written a heartrending account of his struggle to stay alive under the most horrific conditions in concentration camps including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen during World War II. The book's nine chapters detail powerfully the author's struggle to survive from September 1, 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland and entered Horn's home city of Radom, about 80 miles from Warsaw, until the Allies liberated Bergen-Belsen in 1945. In a gripping chapter, the author describes life in the Peenemunde concentration camp, where prisoners faced death from overwork, extermination, or the reign of terror organized by the capos. Grim but compelling reading for popular collections. Mark Weber, Kent State Univ. Lib., Ohio
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Horn's horrifying ordeal began on September 2, 1939, when at age 12 he watched German bombers attack his home city of Radom, Poland. The ordeal ended on April 15, 1945, when Allied forces freed him from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. His parents and sister were killed in Treblinka, and his two brothers and two uncles also perished. Horn survived Auschwitz and six other concentration camps before being sent to Bergen-Belsen. In 1964 when he applied to the German restitution office for compensation, the court rejected his claim, ruling that since no human was capable of withstanding the experiences described, he must be lying. His memoir, Horn writes, "is my chance to point an accusing finger at my oppressors and to record what is indelibly marked in the inner recesses of my mind." George Cohen
