Summary Of Mark It With A Stone By Joseph Horn

The Holocaust is a bone-chilling event known throughout classrooms, along with the atrocities Adolf Hitler committed. He condemned around 6 million people to death, mostly Jews, and has been known as a madman by anyone who learned about him in depth. However, there is another man who did almost the same thing as Hitler, who is hardly known; his name is King Leopold II, king of Belgium. He had it out for African Americans. He wanted to push his ideals and his work onto them. To show, “The white guy who turned the Congo into his own personal part-plantation, part-concentration camp, part-Christian ministry—and killed 10 to 15 million Congolese people in the process...” This is a description of what went on. Additionally, there are pictures with black people having ropes tied around their necks then connected in a line, choking them as they walked or at least keeping them from running off. Moreover, these people were starved and beaten much like how Jews were in concentration camps.
This spine-chilling book is the story of Horn and his survival in the concentration camps. It shows the terrors of the concentration camps and the strength of friendship, bravery, and the human soul. Even though Horn survived, it was not pretty. Though the entire book explains the treacheries in camp, a quote that stands out reads, “But I grieved mostly because I had lost my last connection to humanity as I once knew it. I grieved because I had now become a nameless number.” In Auschwitz, Horn was stripped of his hair, clothing, and personal identity. He was given a tattoo, and his name was now useless. For only being a Jew, Joseph’s life was now destroyed; his humanity had been