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Mark it with a Stone

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After reading the powerful first hand account,Mark It with A Stone, by Joseph Horn, think of how lucky you are to have a family, food, and a roof over your head. This autobiography takes you along Joseph Horn's journey through Europe and many different concentration camps. He faced death several times and there were times when he'd rather have been dead than alive and suffering. When all the Jews were liberated, he moved to the States. He had to learn how to start over and make a living with few friends and no direct family living. I can assure you that you will not forget such an experience like this one and will learn to teach others of this unfortunate disaster. Knowledge was one concept Horn kept, and hopefully we can all gain more knowledge and use it wisely just like Joseph did, not too long ago! Horn's most interesting aspect was definitely his courage. When you're facing danger, it's hard to act quickly and maturely. Yet, Joseph Horn did this without a problem. Courage is a characterisitic that does not come easily to most people, but Horn demonstrates this several times. To go through the death defying situations that Horn went through, it is evident that courage is needed. Horn was very lucky and benefited from having this important quality that he took with him through life. I highly recommend this book to all young adults and their parents. It's a great book that should be shared with people all around the country. It is very powerful and can be very graphic, so if you're not good at handling these details, then maybe it's not such a good idea. But, we could all learn a lot from Joseph Horn and his story. Regardless of religion, race, or ethnic background, this book should be read by all. If there were only more people with Joseph's courage, strength, wisdom, and compassion, the world would be a better place.

Joseph Horn's memoir, Mark it with a Stone, is a sharply etched portrayal of the Holocaust as seen for seven years from inside a series of boxcars and concentration camp factories where workers who broke down were systematically broken down. Rich in irony, Horn's visual imagery of what is was like to be a Holocaust victim makes the whole terrible processing of humans seem almost normal despite his vivid accounts of near-starvation, random murders, beatings, and human callousness beyond beliefs. Horn survived several years as a slave of the Nazis, he believes, so he could tell the world what happened as he saw it. Mark it with a Stone accomplishes that goal using visual descriptions that are absolutely convincing and avoiding the lurid hyperbole that turn up in the average Holocaust story. It's all like a description of a day at school punctuated by chronic overwork, wretched food, and occasional murder. The reader, emotionally attached to the hardships of each and every Jewish person, not only feels he or she is actually there but also emerges as a survivor of the book. Because "Mark it with a Stone" presents itself in such an emotionally attaching and vivid manor, high school or advanced middle school students would find it accessible while adults would read it in a single sitting.

This book is very engrossing and informative, as well as showing you what it was like to live through the horrid times of the holocaust, through the eyes of a child who had to grow up very quickly. He would go through all these terrible things, and then all of a sudden he would catch a great break and be doing really well for himself (all things considered), and then he'd be shipped off somewhere else. Where it would NOT be so well for him. There were lots of ups and downs with these experiences. But learning to live in death camps and seeing the chimneys, the smoke and the fires every day, just stands out to me.

This book gives lots of information I hadn't heard before. Such as the Nazis stuffing the Russian POWs into sealed barracks and suffocating them by the thousands, to get rid of them. And then burying them in mass graves. And also, the Nazis seeing what went on in the Katyn digup, and deciding they needed to dig up their own mass graves and burn the bodies. It makes me wonder how many mass graves there are all over Europe and Russia. How many bodies were never accounted for, and the people will never be able to be properly buried?

Also like that he included some information on the trial he testified in, and also he gave as much of a rundown as he could of what happened to his family and friends you met in his book.

This book is highly readable, and I recommend it to people interested in this subject. Also think it would be excellent reading for teenagers, to show them what can happen in our world, and make them appreciate all that they are given in life. I think this lesson is one that would definitely stick with you, and wish I had read it as a teenager.

This great book about a Jewish man named Joseph Horn who grew up as the Holocaust was happening, is most defiantly a must read book. Since he is only a child when the Holocaust first starts, he witnesses horrible deaths of almost more than six thousand Jewish people by the German Nazis. He is one of the few Jewish people who survived through the whole Holocaust. Throughout the book he loses his family, friends and dearest companions to the Holocaust. Determined to see his family again he fights to survive the Holocaust. Joseph also operates and explains how the Jews were treated and what they had to do in the holding camps and ghettos to survive.

Throughout the book Joseph goes into great detail about how he feels and the abuse he goes through. What he describes really makes stop and think about what is being told. Very emotional feeling is put into the story and it can draw you into it so much that you can picture what has happened. The moments of happiness he received while he was in the Holocaust would be dreadful for anyone now. Have a piece of bread and a bowl of terrible soup to eat once a day. Still in the end he fights through it and survives.

Really the only problem any reader might come by is the German language and explanations. Some German words are explained as other are not. Same as the names of the camps, some named are explained why they are named a cretin word and some are not. Understanding the words that are explained is not difficult but can be hard to remember or relate to. The words or actions not explained can become confusing but not totally frustrating. Overall this is only a small problem in the book.

I think this book is a very good book for most readers. I would not recommend it to younger ones but the ones who would understand the reading. At first it may start out slow but once you get into it, you begin to wonder if you want to go on. Since the book draws you in so much you want to go on, you can't help it. Well that's what happened to me. Being a small book is also a good thing for me since it goes quickly and keeps me active into the book. Mark It With A Stone is one of the few books that made me think, feel and question a lot of emotional and mental thoughts.

After reading the powerful first hand account,Mark It with A Stone, by Joseph Horn, think of how lucky you are to have a family, food, and a roof over your head. This autobiography takes you along Joseph Horn's journey through Europe and many different concentration camps. He faced death several times and there were times when he'd rather have been dead than alive and suffering. When all the Jews were liberated, he moved to the States. He had to learn how to start over and make a living with few friends and no direct family living. I can assure you that you will not forget such an experience like this one and will learn to teach others of this unfortunate disaster. Knowledge was one concept Horn kept, and hopefully we can all gain more knowledge and use it wisely just like Joseph did, not too long ago! Horn's most interesting aspect was definitely his courage. When you're facing danger, it's hard to act quickly and maturely. Yet, Joseph Horn did this without a problem. Courage is a characterisitic that does not come easily to most people, but Horn demonstrates this several times. To go through the death defying situations that Horn went through, it is evident that courage is needed. Horn was very lucky and benefited from having this important quality that he took with him through life. I highly recommend this book to all young adults and their parents. It's a great book that should be shared with people all around the country. It is very powerful and can be very graphic, so if you're not good at handling these details, then maybe it's not such a good idea. But, we could all learn a lot from Joseph Horn and his story. Regardless of religion, race, or ethnic background, this book should be read by all. If there were only more people with Joseph's courage, strength, wisdom, and compassion, the world would be a better place.

It is just unbelievable how many times the author survived death. This is an excellent book for everyone interested in the truth about the Holocaust. Joseph Horn tells everything straightout, nothing but the truth. After reading it, you'll be left thinking about it for a very long time, and wondering how he, or anybody, could survive such an ordeal. An extraordinary book.