At 10, I fled the Nazis to live starving and alone in the woods. For two years, detection meant death

Maxwell Smart, a Holocaust survivor, felt safest when it rained, reflecting on his time hiding from the Nazis in the forest: 'When it was raining, I knew I was safe.'

For over 70 years, Smart kept the horrors he experienced a secret, even from his children, describing how he coped by erasing it from his memory: 'After the war I could not allow myself to think about the torture of my past. I wiped it out.'

Smart, formerly known as Oziac Fromm, channeled his experiences through art, hinting at the atrocities he faced in his expressive paintings: 'The only hint at the atrocities he witnessed lay in the vivid, expressionist works he painted as an artist.'

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