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name: "Abraham Bomba"
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born: "9 June 1913"
died: "19 February 2000"
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# Abraham Bomba

Actor. Born 9 June 1913 in Bytom (Beuthen), Poland. Died 19 February 2000.

## Details

- **Born:** 9 June 1913, Bytom (Beuthen), Poland
- **Died:** 19 February 2000
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2697960

## Biography

Abraham Bomba (1913–2000) was a Polish-Jewish barber who survived the Treblinka extermination camp and appeared as himself in Claude Lanzmann's documentary *Shoah* (1985).

Deported to Treblinka in 1942, Bomba was forced to cut the hair of women before they were gassed. He escaped in early 1943, later testifying at postwar trials of camp personnel in Germany. He immigrated to the United States in 1951.

Bomba's extended interview for *Shoah*, filmed in a Tel Aviv barbershop, forms one of the film's central testimonies about the camp's operations.

*Sources: encyclopedia.ushmm.org, iranwire.com, perspectives.ushmm.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shoah* (1985), Fi1m 93, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/shoah.md)

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