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Article: Marcel Marceau Sounds Off: The mime with a thousand faces recalls the
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- The Jewish Week
- Article date:
- April 21, 1995
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Daniel Schifrin
The Jewish Week
04-21-1995
Marcel Marceau Sounds Off: The mime with a thousand faces recalls the. first experiences that led him to silence and masquerade.
In 1940, at the age of 17, Marcel Mangel forced his face into a smile, and pretending to be a scout leader, marched a bunch of Jewish and other kids out of France and into the Swiss Alps, at great risk to himself.
This boy -- already a master of disguise -- would soon take his place on a less dangerous stage, with a face as white as death and a bloody stripe for a mouth. The body, wise and elastic enough to fool the Nazis, became increasingly wily and disciplined.
Mangel's father, a kosher butcher, was killed at Auschwitz ...
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