Before the war, Abraham Bomba (b. 1913) was a barber living in Czestochowa, Poland. In 1942 he and his family were deported to the Treblinka extermination camp. Instead of facing immediate execution, as was the fate of many new arrivals at Treblinka, Bomba was selected for forced labor. In a gruesome irony, he was assigned the task of cutting women’s hair before they entered the gas chambers. In this 1990 interview, he described this process.

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