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Abraham Bomba: ... and from that, from that place we smuggled into the ghetto, which a
lot of people that tried to smuggle out from the ghetto themselves, but we paid the Polish
police a lot of money to allow us to go into the ghetto. We went into the ghetto. First,
the first people that saw us, they couldn't believe it. I myself, I was known, I had a
barber's shop in Czestochowa, I was in certain organisations, and they knew me. And they
came over: "From where are you? We know that you were sent away." I said, "From Treblinka."
"Treblinka?," they said, "We heard about Treblinka. Some people that went through, they told about
Treblinka. But how?" I said, "Yes, we are from Treblinka." "What happened over there
with my wife? What happened over there with my father?" I said to them, "What do you mean,
'What had happened'? Nobody is alive." "Oh, what happened to you? What are you, what is
you, are you crazy or something like that? That is not possible. What are you trying
to do? Are you trying to make jokes? Are you trying to make a panic here in the ghetto?"
I said, "Look, you want to believe it or you don't want to believe it? I went with my wife,
I went with my mother, and I went with all my family. What you think I would leave them
over there if they would be alive, and come back? I want you to know that they are dead
and your family is dead."