Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust
Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust is a Canadian television documentary film directed by Rebecca Snow, which premiered in 2019 on History. The film focuses on Helen Yermus, Maxwell Smart and Rose Lipsyzc, three Jewish Canadians who survived the Holocaust as children, as they share their stories and explore unresolved questions from their histories in conjunction with historians, genealogists and forensic experts.
The film aired on History on November 11, 2019, and was rebroadcast on November 16 by the Global Television Network.
Awards
The film received a Banff Rockie Award nomination for Best History and Biography Documentary at the 2020 Banff World Media Festival.It received six Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards in 2021, for Best History Program or Series, Best Editorial Research, Best Visual Research, Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Factual Series, Best Direction in a Documentary and Best Writing in a Documentary. It won the award for Best Visual Research.
''The Boy in the Woods''
In 2018, Smart published the memoir The Boy in the Woods, centred on his childhood experience of having to fend for himself in the forests of Poland during the war.In 2022, Snow entered production on the feature film adaptation The Boy in the Woods, which premiered at the 2023 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival.