Abraham Bomba
Abraham was raised in Czestochowa, Poland, where he became a barber. He and his family were deported to the Treblinka Killing center from his previous ghetto. Once there, he was selected for forced labor. His job was to cut women's hair before they were gassed. He described it as “very painful because some of the barbers would recognize their own mothers, sisters or grandmothers.” They were not allowed to say a word to the women unless they too wanted to be gassed. Bomba also went into detail about the gas chambers. “It was a large concrete room with no windows... they shoved as many people as possible into the chamber all with their hands up to fit more people. Once they fit all the adults they could, they put two, three, four year olds on top of them.” It was a sight he would never forget. Abraham escaped Treblinka in 1943 and went back to Czestochowa, where he worked in a labor camp until liberation by Soviet soldiers in 1945.