Media Release: Documentary Film Maker Gary Hochman to Speak at Springfield's Sinai Temple on March 23...Hochman Previews "Deadly Deception at Sobibor".

DATELINE: March 7, 2014

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Mark G. Auerbach, 

Mark G. Auerbach Public Relations

413-427-7352 or MGAuerbach@gmail.com

GARY HOCHMAN, LONGMEADOW NATIVE AND DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKER, PREVIEWS “DEADLY DECEPTION AT SOBIBOR”, HIS NEW PBS FILM  ABOUT UNEARTHING A NAZI DEATH CAMP, ON SUNDAY, MARCH 23 AT SINAI TEMPLE, SPRINGFIELD 

Longmeadow native Gary Hochman, a producer of national history and science documentaries for PBS and NOVA, will discuss his documentary-in-production,, “Deadly Deception at Sobibor”, at Sinai Temple, Springfield, MA, on Sunday, March 23, at 9:30AM. The event, part of the Men of Sinai program, is open to the public with a $5.00 donation for non-menbers, which includes a breakfast of lox, bagels, eggs, and coffee..

“Deadly Deception at Sobibor” brought Hochman to a remote forest in Poland, where archeologistsYoram Haimi (Israel) and Wojtek Mazurek (Poland) are leading a team to uncover evidence of a Nazi cover-up of a 1943 revolt and mass escape from the WWII death camp known as Sobibor. To hide the rebellion and the murder of 250,000 Jews, the Nazis concealed all trace of the camp. Haimi, Mazurek, and local Polish citizens excavated a forest to reveal irrefutable evidence, including traces of the walled corridor through which the Nazis herded Jews to the gas chamber; personal items, a Star of David, and a small name tag of a murdered child from Amsterdam.  Adding eyewitness testimony is Philip Bialowitz, one of the 8 remaining Sobibor survivors. 

This is an unprecedented international collaboration in Holocaust research, in cooperation with the Majdanek Museum, the Sobibor Museum, the Foundation for Polish-German Reconciliation, and the Sobibor Steering Committee representing Poland, Israel, The Netherlands, and Slovakia.

Hochman, a graduate of Longmeadow High School, majored in journalism at the University of Wisconsin, before joining Wisconsin Public Television. He’s currently a senior producer at NET television (PBS) in Nebraska. Hochman produced the NOVA PBS special “Secrets Beneath The Ice” (about Antarctica and climate change) before beginning work on “Deadly Deception at Sobibor”.

Sinai Temple is located at 1100 Dickinson Street in Springfield, MA. For information on Sinai Temple: http://www.sinai-temple.org/index.php

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Note to the Media:

To arrange a phone interview with Gary Hochman, or for photographs, contact: Mark G. Auerbach Public Relations. 413-427-7352 or mgauerbach@gmail.com.