Actor Robert Clary Dies

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Robert Clary who was best known as Louie LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes has died at the age of 96. He was also a Holocaust survivor.

Robert Clary, ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ star and Auschwitz survivor, dead at 96

 

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Hogan's Heroes alum Robert Clary dies at 96 … played Corporal LeBeau

Clary, a Holocaust survivor, was the last living member of the principal cast of the CBS sitcom which ran for six seasons from September 1965 to April 1971.

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17 November 2022

"Clary was born Robert Max Widerman on March 1, 1926 in Paris as the youngest in an Orthodox Jewish family with 14 children.

He started singing and entertaining at the age of 12, and was 16 when his family was sent to Auschwitz, where his parents were murdered in the gas chamber.

For 36 years I kept these experiences during the war locked up inside myself,' Clary said. 'But those who are attempting to deny the Holocaust, my suffering and the suffering of millions of others have forced me to speak out.'

He opened up about the juxtaposition of working on the WWII series amid his real-life experiences in his 2001 memoir From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes.

'I had to explain that [Hogan's Heroes] was about prisoners of war in a stalag, not a concentration camp,' Clary said. 'And although I did not want to diminish what soldiers went through during their internments, it was like night and day from what people endured in concentration camps.'

 

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So sad

I knew him best from Days of Our Lives.