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Continued from front page «During the mandatory daily lineups, Benny’s brother who had become severely ill from diarrhea and could no longer stand, was shot at Benny’s feet.
“From that moment on, I became an animal, a beast,” Mr. Hochman stated with emotion. “I decided then and there that I would survive no matter what happened.”
Trains full of people were brought in, stripped and sent to the “shower house”, the gas chambers. There were so many bodies that the crematory at Auschwitz couldn’t keep up. Mr. Hochman described the horrendous job ascribed to him after the bodies were dropped to the basement from the gas chamber. He and others were given scissors and a small hatchet. They were to cut off the hair and remove jewelry and filled teeth, no matter the cost. He knew failure to execute his duties ensured certain death.
Lines of prisoners were marched out to the edge of a deep trench that had been dug. Machine gun fire laid the prisoners into the hole.
Mr. Hochman’s listeners stomached the hard stories shared about women being taken to the German military barracks and brought back shot in the head, skin eating rats that were as big as cats, target practice done on infants, dead fly-covered bodies hung from clotheslines, Dr. Mengala’s experiments, as well as many other abominations. These stories only served to give listeners a glimpse into the horrific days that Mr. Hochman endured in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald death camps.
Mr. Hochman became a number, as B-3156 was inkpoked into his arm, a reminder that remains etched forever on his arm.
The prisoners at Auschwitz were marched to Buchenwald in an attempt to keep them from being set free. The grueling days of travel left him and many others close to death. Mr. Hochman recounted the days before his liberation, and the weak state of his own body as being ‘too weak to even grab the piece of candy thrown to him by an American soldier’.
Mr. Hochman told of the days following, as he spent six weeks in the medic ward, before being issued a uniform and helping do what needed to be done.
Hochman said, “I fell in love with Americans when a GI kept handing him candy, food and cigarettes.”
A time of questions and answers followed the speech and his wife, who no longer sits in on his speeches, rejoined her husband in the gym. She cannot bear to repeatedly hear of the horrors that she knows still plagues her husband, even while he sleeps.
“I thought Mr. Hochman gave us great insight into the reality of the whole Holocaust situation. It was definitely not humane and there were horrible living conditions. You are right, Mr. Osburn, ‘I now have nothing to complain about,’” added Darcie Gallagher, eighth grade student from Nodaway-Holt.
Tina Stitt, senior at Nodaway- Holt stated, “I thought it was very interesting and educational for us. I couldn’t believe all of the horrible things that happened to the people at that time. I’m glad that someone made it out of that to tell the story to us young people of today.”
“The stories showed me how cruel they were and how easy we have it today. We complain about the little things,” commented Jacob Rogers, senior at Mound City. “I’m glad I got to hear it. It’s a piece of history.”
The horrors of those days, which began nearly seventy years ago, still caused Mr. Hochman to pause in his speech. Those moments of silence, spoke as loud as the words, to the sense of evil of those days- days that only those present were able to hear firsthand».
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