“But those who are attempting to deny the Holocaust, my suffering and the suffering of millions of others have forced me to speak out.”ĭid Clary have any reservations about doing a comedy series dealing with Nazis and concentration camps? “For 36 years I kept these experiences during the war locked up inside myself,” he once said. He chose not to talk about his Holocaust experience for almost four decades.
He was the only one of his captured family to make it out alive. “Singing, entertaining and being in kind of good health at my age, that’s why I survived,” he told Flax.Ĭlary was incarcerated for 31 months (he worked in a factory making 4,000 wooden shoe heels each day) and tattooed with the identification “A-5714” on his left forearm. Do what they tell you to do.'”Ĭlary’s parents were murdered in the gas chamber that day.Īt Buchenwald, Clary sang with an accordionist every other Sunday to an audience of SS soldiers. “She said, ‘Behave.’ She probably knew me as a brat. “My mother said the most remarkable thing,” Clary told The Hollywood Reporter’s Peter Flax in late 2015. At age 12, he began singing and performing one day when he was 16, he and his family were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz.
Louis LeBeau, the 5-foot-1 Clary hid in small spaces, dreamed about girls, got along great with the guard dogs and used his expert culinary skills to help the befuddled Nazi Colonel Wilhelm Klink (Werner Klemperer) get out of trouble with his superiors.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 children in a strict Orthodox Jewish family. Hogan, an American who led an international group of Allied prisoners of war in a covert operation to defeat the Nazis from inside the Luft Stalag 13 camp.Īmazon Prime Takes 'The Swarm' for AfricaĪs the patriotic Cpl. He was 96.Ĭlary, who was mentored by famed entertainer Eddie Cantor and married one of his five daughters, died Wednesday morning at his home in Los Angeles, his granddaughter Kim Wright told The Hollywood Reporter.ĬBS’ Hogan’s Heroes, which aired over six seasons from September 1965 to April 1971, starred Bob Crane as Colonel Robert E. Robert Clary, the French actor, singer and Holocaust survivor who portrayed Corporal LeBeau on the World War II-set sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, has died.
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