{"id":74975,"date":"2020-06-23T09:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T06:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/?p=74975"},"modified":"2020-11-08T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T07:37:58","slug":"lbh_marceau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/en\/lbh_marceau\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcel Marceau: The Legendary Mime Who Saved Jewish Children and Fought Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was born Marcel Mangel on March 22, 1923 in Strasbourg, France, to a Jewish family. His parents were Ann Werzberg Mangel and Charles Mangel, a kosher butcher. Young Marcel Mangel discovered Charlie Chaplin at age five when his mother took him to the movies and he became an avid fan. He entertained his friends with Chaplin imitations, and dreamed of starring in silent movies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When France entered World War II, Marcel, 16, fled with his family to Limoges, France. In 1944 Marcel\u2019s father was captured and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed. Marcel\u2019s mother survived.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marcel and his younger brother Alain adopted the last name \u201cMarceau\u201d during the German occupation of France to avoid being identified as Jewish. The name was chosen as a reference to Fran\u00e7ois S\u00e9verin Marceau-Desgraviers, a general of the French Revolution. The two brothers joined the French Resistance in Limoges, where they saved hundreds of Jewish children from the race laws and concentration camps, and after the liberation of Paris, joined the French army.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first time Marcel used mime was after France was invaded, in order to keep Jewish children quiet while he helped them escape to neutral Switzerland.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79413\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1966-Marcel-Marceau-Program-2-Yosi-Alfi-Archive-997008215585505171.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-79413\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1966-Marcel-Marceau-Program-2-Yosi-Alfi-Archive-997008215585505171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1966-Marcel-Marceau-Program-2-Yosi-Alfi-Archive-997008215585505171.jpg 472w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1966-Marcel-Marceau-Program-2-Yosi-Alfi-Archive-997008215585505171-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1966-Marcel-Marceau-Program-2-Yosi-Alfi-Archive-997008215585505171-430x600.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;He was miming for his life.&#8221; Image from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/he\/archives\/NNL_ARCHIVE_AL997008215585505171\/NLI\">Yossi Alfi Archive<\/a>, accessible through a collaboration between the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage, the National Library of Israel and Haifa University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Masquerading as a boy scout, Marcel evacuated a Jewish orphanage in eastern France. He told the children he was taking them on a vacation in the Alps, and led them to safety in Switzerland. Marcel made the perilous journey three times, saving hundreds of Jewish orphans. He was able to avoid detection by entertaining the children with silent pantomime. The documentary filmmaker Phillipe Mora, whose father fought alongside Marcel in the French resistance, said, &#8220;Marceau started miming to keep children quiet as they were escaping. It had nothing to do with show business. He was miming for his life.&#8221; While fighting with the French resistance, Marcel ran into a unit of German soldiers. Thinking fast, he mimicked the advance of a large French force, and the German soldiers retreated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Word spread throughout the Allied forces of Marcel\u2019s remarkable talent as a mime. In his first major performance, Marcel entertained 3,000 US troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Later in life, he expressed great pride that his first review was in the US Army newspaper,\u00a0<em>Stars and Stripes<\/em>. Owing to Marcel\u2019s excellent command of the English, French, and German languages, he worked as a liaison officer with General George Patton\u2019s army.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79437\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-soldier-and-French-partisan-1944-Public-Domain.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-79437\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-soldier-and-French-partisan-1944-Public-Domain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-soldier-and-French-partisan-1944-Public-Domain.jpg 605w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-soldier-and-French-partisan-1944-Public-Domain-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-soldier-and-French-partisan-1944-Public-Domain-602x600.jpg 602w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/US-soldier-and-French-partisan-1944-Public-Domain-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An American officer and French partisan crouch behind a car during a street fight in France, 1944. (Public Domain: National Archives and Records Administration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marceau joined Jean-Louis Barrault\u2019s company and was soon cast in the role of Arlequin in the pantomime, &#8220;Baptiste&#8221; (which Barrault had interpreted in the film <em>Les Enfants du Paradis)<\/em>. Marceau\u2019s performance won him such acclaim that he was encouraged to present his first \u201cmimodrama\u201d,\u00a0<em>Praxitele and the Golden Fish<\/em>, at the Bernhardt Theatre that same year. The acclaim was unanimous and Marceau\u2019s career as a mime was firmly established.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 1947 Marceau created &#8220;Bip the Clown&#8221; which was first played at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Poche (Pocket Theatre) in Paris. In his appearance he wore a striped pullover and a battered, beflowered, stovepipe silk opera hat. The outfit signified life\u2019s fragility and Bip became his alter ego, just as the \u201cLittle Tramp\u201d became Charlie Chaplin\u2019s. Bip\u2019s misadventures with everything from butterflies to lions, from ships and trains, to dance-halls or restaurants, were limitless.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79422\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1966-Marcel-Marceau-Program-Cover-Yosi-Alfi-Archive-997008215585505171.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-79422\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1966-Marcel-Marceau-Program-Cover-Yosi-Alfi-Archive-997008215585505171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1966-Marcel-Marceau-Program-Cover-Yosi-Alfi-Archive-997008215585505171.jpg 509w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1966-Marcel-Marceau-Program-Cover-Yosi-Alfi-Archive-997008215585505171-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/blognli2026.moonsite.co.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1966-Marcel-Marceau-Program-Cover-Yosi-Alfi-Archive-997008215585505171-428x600.jpg 428w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Program for Marcel Marceau&#8217;s 1966 appearance in Israel. From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nli.org.il\/he\/archives\/NNL_ARCHIVE_AL997008215585505171\/NLI\">Yossi Alfi Archive<\/a>, accessible through a collaboration between the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage, the National Library of Israel and Haifa University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the next six decades, Marcel was the world\u2019s foremost master of the art of silence. Pop star Michael Jackson credited Marcel with inspiring his famous moonwalk. In 2001, Marcel was awarded the Wallenberg Medal for his acts of courage during the Holocaust. When the award was announced, people speculated on whether Marcel would give an acceptance speech. He replied, \u201cNever get a mime talking, because he won\u2019t stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marcel Marceau died at the racetrack in Cahors, France, on 22 September 2007, which happened to be Yom Kippur, at the age of 84. At his burial ceremony, the second movement of Mozart\u2019s <em>Piano Concerto No. 21<\/em>\u00a0(which Marceau long used as an accompaniment for an elegant mime routine) was played, as was Bach\u2019s\u00a0<em>Cello Suite No. 5<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marcel Marceau was interred in the P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. In 1999 New York City declared 18 March \u201cMarcel Marceau Day\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Many thanks to the author and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishgen.org\/new\/\">JewishGen<\/a> for permission to republish this article. It appears here as part of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/europe.nli.org.il\/\"><em>Gesher L\u2019Europa<\/em><\/a><em>,\u00a0the National Library of Israel\u2019s initiative to connect with people, institutions and communities in Europe and beyond.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you liked this article, try these:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/en\/lbh_bilder\/\">Celebrating in the Shadow of WWII: \u201cJewish Photos\u201d from September 1939<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/en\/zishe_breitbart\/\">Meet the Jewish Circus Performer Who Could Bend Iron with His Bare Hands<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nli.org.il\/en\/jewishlettersreturn\/\">\u201cLetter Returned to Sender: The Council of Jews no Longer Exists\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Marceau started miming to keep children quiet as they were escaping&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":79442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[649],"tags2":[],"class_list":["post-74975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora","tag-gesherleuropa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8 - 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