Marceau is quietly laid to rest

French mime Marcel Marceau was buried in a simple ceremony today at Paris’ Pere Lachaise cemetery, taking his place alongside other giants of the arts also buried there.

Rabbi Rene-Samuel Sirat read an homage to Marceau, noting that he died on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. A French Jew, Marceau escaped deportation to a Nazi death camp during World War II, unlike his father who died in Auschwitz.