kvetchlandia:Erich Lessing Mime Artist Marcel Marceau, Paris 1
kvetchlandia:Erich Lessing Mime Artist Marcel Marceau, Paris 1951As a teenager during the nazi occupation of France, Marcel Marceau was recruited to the French Resistance by his cousin, Georges Loinger, the commander of a Resistance unit. While in the Resistance, because of his training as an artist, he became a document forger, providing false identification documents to many persecuted Jews, resistance members and others in need, allowing them to survive the nazis. He also was involved with the smuggling of Jewish children into Switzerland. It was during these smuggling trips that he first began to perfect his skills at mime. He would entertain the children to keep them quiet as they hid, and what better way to do that than to be silent himself? A Jew originally from Strasbourg in Alsace, Marceau’s father was murdered in Auschwitz. “I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man’s destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.” Marcel Marceau -- source link
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