oce 🐆@jlai.lu to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoTIL famous French mime Marcel Marceau was part of the French and Jewish resistance during Nazi occupation and used his talents to keep hidden Jewish kids entertained and silent when neededwww.smithsonianmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1376arrow-down11
arrow-up1375arrow-down1external-linkTIL famous French mime Marcel Marceau was part of the French and Jewish resistance during Nazi occupation and used his talents to keep hidden Jewish kids entertained and silent when neededwww.smithsonianmag.comoce 🐆@jlai.lu to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square8fedilink
minus-squareCodpiece@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·4 days agoHe was an expert at teaching the kids how to hide in boxes.
minus-squareaeronmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·4 days agoNazis couldn’t find them because they kept hitting invisible walls.
minus-squareoce 🐆@jlai.luOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·4 days agoFrom the article Marceau’s talent of mimicry also may have saved his own life during the war, when he ran into a unit of 30 German soldiers, Singer writes. The mimic pretended to be an advance guard of a larger French force and convinced the Germans to retreat
He was an expert at teaching the kids how to hide in boxes.
Nazis couldn’t find them because they kept hitting invisible walls.
From the article