c/til · by oce@jlai.lu · 328d

TIL 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 needed

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mime-who-saved-kids-holocaust-180962533/

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Codpiece@feddit.uk · 31 pts · 328d (2 replies)

He was an expert at teaching the kids how to hide in boxes.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 328d (1 reply)

Nazis couldn’t find them because they kept hitting invisible walls.

oce@jlai.lu · 15 pts · 328d

From 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

titey@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 328d (1 reply)

Les justes.

tatann@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 328d

"Ackchyually", I'm pretty sure "les justes" are non-jewish people that helped/saved jewish people during WW2.

Marceau was jewish, not that this diminishes his actions, au contraire

fluxion@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 328d (2 replies)

Whatever what he and those Jewish kids would think of the genocide in Gaza today. How quickly we squander our hard-learned lessons..

tatann@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 328d (1 reply)

TIL you can't share something positive about a jewish person without this type of comment popping

fluxion@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d

Apparently remembering the heroes of the Holocaust and how much we value them for saving innocent lives doesn't call for some amount of introspection about the genocide occuring now