“some of them, they were my close friends, and when they saw me all of them started hugging me. Then that what you doing here? what's going to happen to us? what could you tell them, what could you tell a friend? A friend he worked as a barber he was a good barber; he was from my hometown. When his wife and his sister to the gas chamber” (i.e. 10:22) The pain in the mans words
I was looking for this scene, my parents (both German) made me watch "Shoah" as a young child. It's haunting, and so very, devastatingly human. I'm studying Judaism now, at university, and all of Jewish history at some point cumulates in this terrible, terrible time and those terrible, terrible deeds. And antisemitism is still a thing, in Germany, too, in the US, everywhere! It breaks my heart in so many ways
Right at that point. I can die. Finding out later that I prepared them for death. From the horrors of WWII, yet again, The Jewish People take the title. Everlasting Name.
I always thought this segment was the most chilling part of the whole documentary. It always makes you wonder what you would do if you were in his place.
He's reliving it. The emotions and memories he had suppressed are coming to the surface of his consiousness. Incredible that he continued with the description. I want to believe this never happened, but wishing so is just lying to myself. Men did this to other men. It happened, sorry to say it happened.
no it didn't. not one person still believes the soap from human fat story and this is so old he was still using it then. they are manipulating your emotions and that is disgusting of them to do. look into the holocaust revisionist view. give their side a look before you take possession of that guilt.
"Although the testimony in ‘Shoah’ is authentic, many of its scenes are staged. To film [Abraham] Bomba, the retired barber who had cut hair at Treblinka, Lanzmann got him to borrow a chair in a working barbershop and pretend to cut a friend’s hair while telling the story." The New Yorker, March 19, 2012
Some of the uneducated fools on here do. They won't do any research on their own to find the real truth. Irene Zisblatt is essential viewing...yet another liar.
Very powerful scene. I keep thinking about what I would do, how I would escape, or tell someone, but i know like them I could do nothing. So incredibly sad.
When you see this scene for the first time, you cannot get it out of your head. Despite Lanzmann using no archival footage, this is one of the most chilling Holocaust films ever.
And the world kept silent. Millions of jews were killed in the most incredibly cruel way accompanied by full satisfaction and agreement of civilized world. The revenge will come one day.
@@kevycanavan well are you thinking it's 100% true? check out the John Demjanjuk trial and you can see 11 other people from that camp flat-out lying under oath about things that happened at that camp. (spoiler: Demjanjuk was exonerated by the incredibility of their testimony, there is a video of him laughing in the court as he is set free, hilarious!) -- just to reiterate in summary: 11 people testified and the judge didn't believe they were being truthful so he threw out the case. Why should we believe this guy, then? What's special about him to make us believe him. It's easy to lie about these camps and what happened in them because nobody's going to stand up and defend the accused so they can just continue to lie, without anybody stopping them apart from their own idiocy in trying to prosecute people based on those very lies
@@Lee-wg7en so hang on - because 11 people might have misidentified Ivan the Terrible, this completely unconnected testimony must be thrown out? Bringing up John Demjanjuk like you’re the only person who has Netflix.
@@kevycanavan considering that there were 67 official survivors of that camp, it shouldn't take much effort to investigate his claims -- such as gassings being done and dusted with all bodies cleared out in 5 minutes (hello...?) -- along with the other claims of those survivors. Indeed Carlo Mattogno has done just that recently with Sonderkommando I, II, and III. I don't subscribe to Netflix. And you didn't answer my question... do you believe him 100%?
It’s from Shoah, a 9.5-hour documentary. An important watch, best to watch a little at a time. Looks like it’s only on the AMC platform or you can do a VOD. Or your local library may have the DVD.
Can you imagine seeing somebody that you love or have love for like a good friend and you know that they are about to die it's makes you think what would you do I probably would have died yea I pretty sure I would have
Damn the man recording was kinda pushy. Once he started choking up and weeping. Should have respected him and turned off cam. Then when and if he is ready to continue then carry on. I mean i know this is very important for the world. But my God most of us could never ever walk in his shoes. We could only imagine it as best we can while he is reliving those unimaginable moments.
I have just read that Lanzmann really went after the post-war Poles for their antisemitism but refused to confront Nazi collaboration in his native France. What is one to make of that? We are all hypocrites it seems. We know we are!
Incredible, people are putting Abraham Bomba in jeopardy. How would a man like him being so nervous to tell the story of his friend who had to cut the hair of his woman. Just watch closely the video, that's enough to say and believe
+catherine vardi LMAO seriously? So after he went through all that pain and all that bad memories he would continue his job what they forced him to do? I'm not even need to bring up facts because just that one thing should give you a tip of how disgusting of a liar this person is along with all those idiots who can't even lie properly.
+John Smith It's incredible that you can think in such a base, simplistic way. Layers of ironic nihilism are smothering any chance you'll have at producing original thoughts in your lifetime. Do some research beyond the 20 minute stretches you do on google every hour or so. You'll find that just about every event in history falls into the same broad, basic categorical skepticism you have on this one. Latching to reductive and simplistic ideas is not better than blindly following what's been force fed to you through the education system. It's the same.
@@hououinkyouma3864 He first refused to answer any questions about what he had gone through knowing he wouldn't be able to tell his story. He ten suggested that it would be helpful to speak while he busy doing something else so he they asked a barber shop in his home town if he could cut hair while giving testimony! People like you without any knowledge are dreadfui.
No. Speak the truth, silence the devil. Lies of this magnitude are highly relevant to the society we live in today. Only by speaking against lies, can we fully embrace reality.
I’m not a denier but I just want to know why would they seek out all of those barbers to cut the hair of people who are about to die? I don’t get the logic behind it. Make it make sense.
I also want to add they did this to have the victims conform. Hair is a form of expression and Identity. Take that away and their names, you are left looking like everyone else. You are no one unique. There was most Definitely a psychological torturous element to this process as well. Losing their freedom, their identity, everything had a purpose.
Treblinka was an extermination camp. Hair was cut to provide stuffing for German mattresses. At its peak 12,000 - 15,000 people per day were murdered at Treblinka. The hair was a by product. Do not think it was a psychological reduction, those women were dead within half an hour of their hair being cut. Between 700,000 and 900,000 people died there, in 1945 only seventy people plus Camp personnel survived.
Hi, back then the hair was used for wigs and other products to sell, also music instruments. The Nazis made money out of the jewish with all they had, even their gold teeth and hair. Greetings from germany
Very little of what this guy says adds up. Sorry if this sounds offensive to some, but it's an incredible tale from start to finish, and appeals to emotion rather than logic. ☹️
"Although the testimony in ‘Shoah’ is authentic, many of its scenes are staged. To film [Abraham] Bomba, the retired barber who had cut hair at Treblinka, Lanzmann got him to borrow a chair in a working barbershop and pretend to cut a friend’s hair while telling the story." The New Yorker, March 19, 2012
Who cares? Its the personal testimony that is important. Journalists ask people to retell stories all the time. It doesn't mean the story is any less authentic.
"Although the testimony in 'Shoah' is authentic..." The rest after that sentence is just typical film makers creating a scene. Honestly when I talk in detail about something, i find it easier to do it while engaging in a repetitive task
Hair was routinely shorn from prisoners, usually on arrival, at the death camps. The Nazi war machine used it to make army blankets and socks for U-boat crews. The hair was used, the people were killed.
@@kellyszanyi6147 That was debunked. No lice born hair was used for any mattresses. If they want hair, they can get plenty from civilians, and their own. They get hair cuts all the time....
I love how they edit out when he starts to say they needed women's hair for mattresses. 6:25 All lies. Naked haircuts no need to worry.just like normal. 2 minutes.
