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.

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.

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