Daughter of Holocaust Survivors Speaks about her Father’s Experiences  Sandy Rubenstein, the daughter of Holocaust survivors Joseph and Dina Horn, will speak at the Secaucus Public Library and Business Resource Center at 7 PM on Tuesday, April 29 th . According to reference librarian Jennifer May, Rubenstein’s father, Joseph Horn, wrote a book in 1996 about his amazing struggle to survive the Nazi Death Camps. “Now that book, Mark It With a Stone, is being reissued with an introduction by Rubenstein. Her presentation will include her father’s story, in his own voice, taken from an interview he did with the Steven Spielberg Shoah Foundation. Rubenstein will explain the devastating impact the Holocaust had not only on the survivors, but on their children as well,” May noted. 

According to information supplied by Rubenstein, her father was the only one in his family to stay alive. In explaining why she speaks on the Holocaust, Rubenstein says, “As the survivors age and die, so goes the opportunity to tell their stories. Their children have a story to tell as well. What was it like to live with the knowledge of what your parents went through? And importantly, who will tell these stories now? In the face of the genocide of ethnic groups in Bosnia, Rwanda, Darfur and other areas of the world today, it is imperative to remind ourselves of the potential of evil, while at the same time, we must teach tolerance.” 

According to Rubenstein, her parents, Joseph and Dinah Horn, both came from the same city, Radom, and had met in its ghetto when Dinah (then Danka) was 12 years old and Joseph was 15. Dinah survived Bergen-Belsen and met up with her future husband again at a DP camp. “My father arrived in New York in 1947, and my mother arrived in July 1949. There were married in November 1949,” she said. Joseph Horn, a Glen Rock resident, died in 1999, and Dinah Horn lives in Washington Township. Rubenstein is a resident of Woodcliff Lake. 

“I wanted to thank you, once again, on behalf of the Secaucus Library and all of our patrons, for visiting and sharing your father’s experiences with us. The presentation was powerful and meaningful, and we look forward to reading Mark It With a Stone. ” -Jennifer May, Reference Librarian, Secaucus Public Library, Secaucus, NJ