When he was 16, he and his family were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp by the Nazis. RxWq4j9nck- November 17, 2022Ĭlary was born Robert Max Widerman in Paris on March 1, 1926, the youngest of 14 children in a strict Orthodox Jewish family, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He also appeared on DAYS OF OUR LIVES, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS and THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL and in films like THE HINDENBURG (1975) in a 50-year career. Nobody's gonna tell me, not even God.Robert Clary (1926-2022) - French actor/singer, best known for HOGAN’S HEROES. When I'm dead, I'm dead, who cares? I'll never know. They will remember me as a nice person? Fine. When asked by an interviewer for the Television Academy how he'd like to be remembered, he said, "I don't care. After "Hogan's Heroes" shuttered, Clary would go on to act in several soap operas, most notably as Robert LeClair on "Days of Our Lives," where he appeared in over 500 episodes, per IMDb. it says in big letters 'TINY FRENCHMAN,'" he said in his autobiography, per The Tablet. He would appear in 1975's "The Hindenburg" as a French acrobat, but could not seem to shake that descriptor. That cuteness was something Clary would try to shed as his career expanded beyond the bounds of his star-making sitcom. Their union would last for 32 years, until her death in 1997. Cantor and Clary would remain friends for over a decade before marrying. Through his mentor, he met Natalie Cantor, one of the actor's five daughters.
While in Los Angeles, Clary found himself being mentored by legendary Broadway and Vaudeville performer Eddie Cantor, who helped launched his career as a nightclub singer and Broadway star. He subsequently wrote a memoir about his life, "From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary." After 31 months of imprisonment, Clary was liberated with the rest of the camp's surviving prisoners on April 11, 1945.Īfter returning to Paris to become a nightclub singer, he attracted the attention of Capitol Records, who brought him to Los Angeles to record an album. But those who are attempting to deny the Holocaust, my suffering and the suffering of millions of others have forced me to speak out," Clary once said, per The Hollywood Reporter. "For 36 years I kept these experiences during the war locked up inside myself. Clary was initially reluctant to talk of his experiences at Buchenwald but eventually began taking on speaking engagements, traveling the world, and telling his story.
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