In 1941, German forces were loading his mother and little sister into a truck after occupying the Polish city of Buchach, now part of Ukraine, when his mother urged him to run into a nearby forest. The Jewish-born Smart lived alone for months, subsisting on wild mushrooms while evading the occasional German soldier who patrolled the woods.
“She was right; my story should be told to the world. I should show the horror and the misery that I went through. I didn't go through a real Holocaust story. I have a survival story," Smart says in a recent video call from Montreal. Snow persuaded Smart to share his story as part of her 2019 documentary “Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust.”“I didn't want to write a book, not because I didn't know the importance , but to go back to my past, it was too painful and I didn't want to relive what I went through,” says Smart, who immigrated to Canada as an orphan in 1948.
Much of the film is carried by 15-year-old Jett Klyne, of Penticton, B.C. He says Smart’s story resonated with him because his great-grandmother is a Holocaust survivor.
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