Actor Robert Clary Of “Hogan’s Heroes” Dies At 96

The Hollywood Reporter reports:

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. He was 96.

Clary, 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.

Born Robert Max Widerman in Paris on March 1, 1926, Clary was the youngest of 14 children in a strict Orthodox Jewish family. 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. He was the only one of his captured family to make it out alive.

Read the full article. Clary was the last surviving member of the original Hogan’s Heroes cast.

He chose not to talk about his Holocaust experience for 36 years. “I kept these experiences locked up inside,” he 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.”https://t.co/sh13TvvBxN

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