Hedwig Buschhoff was born in Bochum, Germany, 1879 to Siegmund and Nettchen Netkhen. Prior to WWII she lived in Bochum, Germany. During the war she was in Bochum, Germany. Hedwig was murdered in the Shoah.
During the Shoah, Jews were murdered in a variety of ways, among them gassing, shooting, burning, drowning or burial alive, exhaustion through forced labor, starvation, epidemic diseases, deprivation of medical care and minimal hygienic conditions, and more. Some Jews took their own lives in order to escape arrest and further persecution, or to end their hopeless, relentless suffering.