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When we got to Buchenwald, the SS shoved us into a shower room to spend the night. Writing about his experience, Clary said:

I don't know if I would have survived if I really knew that." I was very immature and young and not really fully realizing what situation I was involved with . He said, "Singing, entertaining, and being in kind of good health at my age, that's why I survived. Īt Buchenwald, Clary sang to an audience of SS soldiers every other Sunday, accompanied by an accordionist. He was later sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was tattooed with the identification "A5714" on his left forearm.

In 1942, because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Ottmuth, in Upper Silesia (now Otmęt, Poland). At age 12, he began a career singing professionally on a French radio station and also studied art in Paris. His parents, Baila and Moishe Widerman, were Polish Jewish immigrants. He also had recurring roles on the soap operas Days of Our Lives (1972–1987), and The Bold and the Beautiful (1990–1992).Įarly life and Holocaust survival īorn in 1926 in Paris, France, Clary was the youngest of 14 children, 10 of whom died in the Holocaust. He is best known for his role as Corporal Louis LeBeau on the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971). Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman Ma– November 16, 2022) was a French actor who was mainly active in the United States.