As a Jewish youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3,000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944 ., Wallenberg lecture, 30 April 2001. Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in Paris.
As a Jewish youth, he lived in h.iding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3,000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944 ., Wallenberg lecture, 30 April 2001. Following, the war, he studied dramatic art! and mime ,in Paris.