Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau Mime French Artist Stage Theater
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Origins
Marceau was born as Marcel Mangel, in Strasbourg France, into a family of Jews. His father was killed in the Holocaust. During the war, he worked in the resistance, sheltering Jewish children from the Nazis.

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