March 24, 2016 1:21 PM. ‘Perhaps that, unconsciously, contributed towards my choice of silence. He began by altering his passport, giving himself a less obviously Jewish name. The cousin who hid him during the war knew Marceau later would make an important contribution to the theater. Now, 13 years after the actor’s death, the extraordinary untold story of how he used mime to defy Hitler’s stormtroopers has been turned into a Hollywood film, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Marceau. Saving 70 Jewish children from the Nazis wasn’t adventure enough? “Many, if not most, survivors of the Holocaust were not able to speak about it for nearly half a century,” explained Butter, herself a Holocaust survivor. Harpo Marx, another silent artiste, became a good friend. Marceau personally smuggled at least 70 youngsters out of France and across the Alps to Switzerland, rescuing them from almost certain slaughter in the concentration camps. Young Marcel traveled with his older brother to Limoges and joined the underground. Marcel Marceau, the actor who played Bip, didn’t wear a red nose or drive a car that fell apart. . A member of the resistance movement fighting the Nazi occupation of France, he masqueraded as a Boy Scout director and evacuated a Jewish orphanage. That Focus and determination between the time of Washing to the time we actually Bless and eat the Lechem is a Holy Silence of focus and determination to do such an important Mitzvah. Paul Byrnes is a film critic for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. The man beloved to millions as a clown was a unsung hero in French Resistance. In May 1940, as the Germans rushed West to occupy the Netherlands and Belgium in a matter of days, the family fled to Limoges in central France, hoping Hitler’s forces would not reach them. Since his mother first took him to the cinema aged five, Marcel was fascinated by Charlie Chaplin. As he recalled, “We were already at peace in December 1945, but we were still mobilized. One of those saved is a teenager called Elsbeth (Bella Ramsey) who has seen both parents murdered in the street in Berlin. Pantomime artist Marcel Marceau not only entertained with his funny, graceful, exaggerated movements, he saved lives – including hundreds of orphans during the Holocaust. Ronda Robinson is an award-winning writer with a passion for inspirational, Jewish, and health and wellness stories. Young Marcel traveled with his older brother to Limoges and joined the underground. November 16, 2017 4:57 PM. ‘I don’t like to speak about myself,’ he added modestly, ‘because what I did humbly during the war was only a small part.’. March 21, 2016 6:36 PM. To the Nazis checking the youngsters’ forged documents, they were French Christian children setting off on a healthy, educational camping trip organised by the Scouts. I also forged papers, not to save only Jews, and children, but to save Gentiles and Jews, especially Gentiles because there was a law in Vichy-occupied France – to send the young French men, who were 18, 19 years old, to factories in Germany to work for the German Army. The next year, his skills proved equally useful after he joined the Free French Forces led by Charles de Gaulle. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. © 2020 Aish.com - Your life. https://www.aish.com/jw/s/Marcel-Marceau-Saved-Hundreds-of-Holocaust-Orphans.html. It all began when he discovered Charlie Chaplin at age 5 and amused friends by imitating the silent-film star. (7) Devorah, He began by altering his passport, giving himself a less obviously Jewish name. Instead, he created a silent and invisible world through mime — climbing stairs that were not there, fighting against a hurricane that only he could feel.

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