He hid from Nazis in the woods for 2 years as a boy. Now his story is on the big screen
Now 94 years old, Maxwell Smart recounts his ordeal of escaping the Holocaust on his own as a Jewish 11-year-old, and he's praising the filmmaker who managed to portray the experience in The Boy in the Woods.
![He hid from Nazis in the woods for 2 years as a boy. Now his story is on the big screen](https://i.cbc.ca/ais/7d1a4563-50ca-4439-a598-5d78e3aebc6a,1718908241698/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1919%2C1079%29%3BResize%3D%281180%29)
![94-year-old Holocaust survivor Maxwell Smart in the foreground, with a still image from the film in background, showing a boy in a forest](https://i.cbc.ca/ais/7d1a4563-50ca-4439-a598-5d78e3aebc6a,1718908241698/full/max/0/default.jpg?im=Crop%2Crect%3D%280%2C0%2C1919%2C1079%29%3BResize%3D%28620%29)
Now 94 years old, Maxwell Smart recounts his ordeal of escaping the Holocaust on his own as a Jewish 11-year-old, and he's praising the filmmaker who managed to portray the experience in The Boy in the Woods.
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