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Marooned

The Boy of Buczacz

Marooned

Aaron Habel & Jack Luna

History, True Crime

4.9676 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this special offering of Marooned, Aaron and Jack travel far from the beaten path to visit the incredible WW2 story of the Boy of Buczacz; a boy whose mother told him to run as the Nazis were loading his and other families onto trucks.

Source:

The Boy in the Woods by Maxwell Smart

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Transcript

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0:00.0

There are those who believe that the cries of a newborn are from the grief of losing their previous life.

0:11.0

But little less than a century ago, in a place like Bouchatch, Poland, for those thrown off balance during the Nazi push to annihilate all they deemed inferior, the cries of newborns,

0:22.6

toddlers, adolescents, teenagers, adults and elders were of the loss of this life, in life.

0:31.1

A waking nightmare. The loss of peace and humanity, the transition to a hell on earth.

0:37.9

Words can't do it justice, this injustice.

0:41.1

To say that someone survived the Holocaust is not nearly sufficient,

0:44.9

considering all that anyone who survived had to have lost.

0:48.4

Like with the case of Ozzyitz Fromm, the so-called boy in the woods.

0:53.8

When this little Jewish boy miraculously found himself alive and alone, from, the so-called boy in the woods.

0:54.3

When this little Jewish boy miraculously found himself alive and alone, all grown up

0:59.4

following the overwhelming death doled out in his beginnings, he didn't stand still in

1:04.2

sulk.

1:05.4

He refused to.

1:07.3

The boy, the young man, became busy living, moving on from a pass that soon fell far behind him,

1:14.1

only catching up when he again found himself alone after the early passing of his wife many years later.

1:21.1

At 55 years old it all came back to him, and with nowhere to put it or hide it, he struggled with the idea of sharing it.

1:30.3

Lucky for us, the boy, Ozzy H. From, who would become the man Maxwell Smart, decided

1:36.1

to write a book, The Boy in the Woods. And it's this source that makes it possible to know

1:41.2

an incredible survival story from this dark chapter in human history

1:45.0

that closed on so many. Welcome to Maroon, stories of the catastrophically lost. I'm Jack Luna. This is Aaron

1:54.0

Havel. Bouchatch Poland, the summer of 1941, Soviet held territory.

2:03.7

The Soviet Union's pact with Nazi Germany, wherein part of the agreement, was a secret

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