Clary also performed on Broadway in “New Faces of 1952” and “Seventh Heaven” in 1955.Ĭlary, who starred in “Hogan’s Heroes” on CBS from September 1965 to April 1971, waited 36 years to publicly discuss his Holocaust experiences.He remained publicly silent about his wartime experience until 1980 when, Clary said, he was provoked to speak out by those who denied or diminished the orchestrated effort by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jews.Ī documentary about Clary’s childhood and years of horror at Nazi hands, “Robert Clary, A5714: A Memoir of Liberation,” was released in 1985. His film credits include “Ten Tall Men” (1951) and “Thief of Damascus” (1952). Robert Clary as Corporal Louis LeBeau in “Hogan’s Heroes” in 1965. Four years later, he headed to Los Angeles to record for Capitol Records and, in 1950, appeared in a French comedy skit on a CBS variety show hosted by comedian Ed Wynn. In May 1945, Clary returned to France and sang in dance halls. “Singing, entertaining and being in kind of good health at my age, that’s why I survived,” he said of singing with an accordionist every other Sunday for Schutzstaffel (SS) soldiers at Buchenwald. He wound up incarcerated at the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald for 31 months, where he made wooden shoe heels in a factory and got the identification number “A-5714” tattooed on his left forearm.
Getty ImagesĬlary was the only one from his captured family to survive. Do what they tell you to do.’” Robert Clary attends an event at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017. “She said, ‘Behave.’ She probably knew me as a brat. “My mother said the most remarkable thing,” Clary told the Reporter in 2015 about that day. When he was 16, he and his family were sent to Auschwitz, where his parents were murdered in the gas chamber. The “Hogan’s Heroes” star, who played Corporal LeBeau on the World War II-era sitcom, passed away on Tuesday, his granddaughter Kim Wright told the Hollywood Reporter.Ĭlary was the last surviving member of the show’s original principal cast.īorn Robert Max Widerman in Paris on March 1, 1926, Clary was the youngest of 14 kids born to his strict Orthodox Jewish parents.
JJ Watt, NFL stars mourn passing of Jim Brown: ‘An absolute legend’įounding member of 80’s rock band The Smiths dead at 59įrench actor and Holocaust survivor Robert Clary has died at age 96. NFL legend: ‘Can’t underestimate’ Jim Brown’s NFL legacy
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