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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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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.
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The Boy in the Woods by Maxwell Smart
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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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