I started to realize another thing the importance of telling my story saw What a Mighty protector they had the rabbi removed the piece of paper from the Golem’s ear she knew as a mother that we are not going to go for a picnic on the truck she knew so she said you have to run away Mo you have to get away from me you are strong smart and brave and all of a sudden I am on a bridge walking towards Freedom Maxwell Smart became an orphan at 11 years old fleeing Nazi persecution in eastern Poland he survived in the woods for nearly 2 years hiding from civilians hunting down Jews in hopes of payment from the Nazis I might as well give up I might as well give up and she portrayed it so perfect because I this was in my mind but she took it out from my mind while in the woods smart found another orphan Jewish boy a few years younger than him yanek they relied on each other and together saved a baby albeit with tragic consequ quences I fed them I dressed them I pulled them and I killed them too you saved him Max you didn’t it wasn’t your fault strike down the Nazis snap them out there is no mat for our this is a film this is a story about Hope and resilience winning out over dehumanization and hatred and fear and I think it’s just I think it’s a story worth seeing you know it’s a story worth telling the only thing that’s real in this world is hunger and pain and ghosts and Jew found out things about me that I didn’t know existed she found out the graves she found out places that I never dreamed to be she found out where I was hiding she found out the forest I started to see a different picture of myself I started to live back what I I missed all my life and and you’re talking about about 70 years later the biggest um success to me in this film is that Maxwell um likes it you know Maxwell feels like I’ve done Justice to his story which is huge that’s why I’m so close to her because she understood me more than anybody else my feeling my inner feeling not what I wrot even I used to think God had abandoned me maybe he sends me you
Now 94, Maxwell Smart recounts his ordeal of escaping the Holocaust on his own as an 11-year-old. The Montrealer praises the filmmaker who depicted his experience in The Boy in the Woods while speaking with CBC’s Brittany Henriques.
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