Bomba and another man manage to return to Czestochowa and tell people there that their relatives who have been sent to Treblinka are dead, but people do not want to believe them. Bomba describes his escape from the camp after he had been there for three months. Lanzmann asks Bomba how many people escaped from Treblinka and how he decided to try and escape. The Germans found out that Bomba was a barber and assigned him to cut the hair of the women before they were gassed. Bomba was selected to work and he describes the strange quiet that descended after the other prisoners entered the gas chamber, and the location where the corpses were burned. Some parts (Camera Rolls 8 and part of 9) are repeated from a different view on Film ID 3200.įILM ID 3200 - Camera Rolls #7-9 - 04:00:04 to 04:29:17 Bomba describes arrival at Treblinka and his escape from the camp. Lanzmann clasps Bomba's hand for most of the interview. He was immediately separated from his wife, child, and mother, and assigned to the red (Jewish) commando.įILM ID 3199 - Camera Rolls #5A,8A,9A - 03:00:09 to 03:23:23Ĭamera mostly on Lanzmann with some side views of Bomba. He describes the train journey to Treblinka and arrival at the camp. He says that the Polish people who watched the trains go by laughed at the plight of the Jews. Bomba describes the next deportation, when he and his family were selected and loaded onto trains. Bomba did not know at this time that deportation meant death. On September 22, 1942, the first deportation from Czestochowa took place, and Bomba's brother and his family were deported. Bomba says that conditions were terrible but that people still had hope. He describes the rapid stigmatization and loss of rights suffered by the Jews: mandatory armbands, confiscation of radios and valuables, curfews. When the Germans invaded in 1939 his family tried to flee but they had nowhere to go. He talks about his family, how hard things were after World War I, and the Jewish community of Czestochowa. Bomba says he was a Zionist when he lived in Czestochowa, Poland before the war. Lanzmann asks Bomba how long he has lived in Israel and how he likes it. In his memoirs published in 2009, Lanzmann calls Bomba "one of the heroes of my film."įILM ID 3197 - Camera Rolls #1-3A - 01:00:06 to 01:33:59 Bomba escaped from Treblinka and tried to warn the remaining residents of Czestochowa but they did not believe him. In the outtakes interview he talks about the treatment the Jews received when the Germans first arrived in his town, deportation to Treblinka, and his work cutting the hair of people right before they entered the gas chambers.
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