USC Shoah Foundation Institute testimony of Abraham Bomba

Oral History | Digitized | VHA Interview Code: 18061

Overview

Interviewee: Abraham Bomba
Experience Group: Jewish Survivor
Gender: M
Interview Length: 3:21:41
Interview Date: 8/14/1996
Interview Location: NY / U.S.A.
Birth Year: 1913
Birth City: Beuthen (Prussia/ Germany)
Birth Country: Germany
Camps: Treblinka II (Poland : Death Camp)
Treblinka I (Poland : Concentration Camp)
Tschenstochau (Poland : Concentration Camp)(generic)
Hiding or False Identity Location: Wegrów (Lublin/ Poland)
Type of Hiding Place: houses
Liberated By: armed forces/ Soviet
Location of Liberation: Czestochowa (Poland)
Other Experiences: ghetto uprisings
escapes from the camps
displaced persons camps
Czestochowa Ghetto Uprising (January 1943)
Prewar Religious Identity: Orthodox Judaism
Postwar Religious Identity: Conservative Judaism
Aid Giver/ Liberator or War Crimes Trials Participant or Witness: war crimes trial participants
Description: Forms part of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive.