FREE FROM THE HOLOCAUST TO HOGANS HEROES: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT CLARY PDF Robert Clary | 248 pages | 01 Feb 2008 | Taylor Trade Publishing | 9781589793453 | English | Lanham, United States From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes : Robert Clary : Robert Clary. Robert From the Holocaust to Hogans Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary born Robert Max Widerman in Paris in is best known for his portrayal of the spirited Corporal Louis Lebeau on the popular television series Hogan's Heroes on the air from to and widely syndicated around the globe. But it is Clary's experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust that infuse his compelling memoir with an honest recognition of life's often horrific reality, a recognition that counters his glittering five-decade career as an actor, singer, and artist and distinguishes this book from those by other entertainers. Clary describes his childhood in Paris, the German occupation inand his deportation in at the age of sixteen to the infamous transit camp Drancy. He recounts his nightmarish, two-and-a-half-year incarceration in Nazi concentration camps like Ottmuth, Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald. In Aprilthe Allies liberated Clary and other inmates. But the news that his parents, two sisters, two half-sisters, and two nephews had not survived the Nazis' genocidal campaign against the Jews reduced his joy to grief. After the war, Clary made his way to the United States and, against great odds, achieved fame on Broadway and in Hollywood. From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes is Robert Clary's extraordinary account of his remarkable life both as a survivor and as an entertainer. Once read, it From the Holocaust to Hogans Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary not be forgotten. Madame Halphen. Toy Soldiers. Charles Trenet Le Fou Chantant. Bar Mitzvah. Madame Aron. Real Soldiers. Descent into the Fires of Hell Drancy. Le Zazou du Parnasse. Harry Bluestone. New Faces of La Plume de ma Tante. Hogans Heroes. Revisiting the Holocaust. Blechhammer Number A Home Alive. Stage Credits. Television Performances. He lives in Beverly Hills, California. Gefilte Fish on the Rue des Deux Ponts. From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary by Robert Clary Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. From the Holocaust to Hogans Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Robert Clary was born Robert Widerman in Paris inthe youngest of fourteen children. He was deported to the Nazi concentration camps in but miraculously was liberated from Buchenwald inthe only one of thirteen deported family members to survive. He appeared in Robert Clary was born Robert Widerman in Paris inthe youngest of fourteen children. Scott, and in nightclubs. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published December 4th by Madison Books first published November 25th More Details Original Title. Other Editions 5. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroesplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jan 28, William Sariego rated it it was amazing Shelves: history. As a little boy I loved watching Hogan's Heroes, and Lebeau was my favorite character. As I grew older and learned the story behind the remarkable man, my respect only increased. The book was a wonderful read, both depressing and uplifting. May 06, Cindy Dyson Eitelman rated it really liked it Shelves: I can't explain why I didn't love this book, but I did like it, a lot. Clary has a great memory for From the Holocaust to Hogans Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary and he relates them well. He doesn't hold back on the feelings and he doesn't try to turn himself into a hero. He simply makes it clear, up front, that he's not one to dwell on the past at the expense of living From the Holocaust to Hogans Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary the present. In fact, From the Holocaust to Hogans Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary almost think he would have rather not have to tell about his life in the concentration camps. It was more of a "this needs to be told; people have to I can't explain why I didn't love this book, but I did like it, a lot. It was more of a "this needs to be told; people have to know and I'm famous enough that they'll listen to my story," than it was a cathartic "rip this beating heart out of my chest. This autobiography was easy to pick up, hard to put down, and charitable to all--except the Nazis, of course. And if there were a certain lack of soul-searching or a personal need to make sense of it all, I'm the only one who'd miss it. Good, solid memoir. Aug 02, Tony Gualtieri rated it it was amazing. This brilliantly structured autobiography is one of the most insightful accounts of the effect of the Holocaust on an individual life that I have read. Well written autobiography. Gives deep insight into the Holocaust and adjusting to life afterwards. Mar 06, Rachael rated it really liked it Shelves: bio-memoir. Hogan's Heroes is one of my guilty pleasures. It doesn't get much more ridiculous than a comedy set in a Prisoner of War camp in the middle of Nazi Germany, but I love the show anyway. When my mother mentioned that one of the actors playing a POW, Robert Clary, was a Holocaust survivor, I was curious how anyone could go from a concentration camp to that show. I could satisfy my curiosity directly from t Hogan's Heroes is one of my guilty pleasures. I could satisfy my curiosity directly from the horse's mouth, as it were. Clary is a decent writer, but that is clearly not his primary profession. The narrative style is simple and straight-forward, with a slight stream of consciousness feel. That causes him to get in a few sucker punches. For instance, he is describing his happy childhood in Paris and the nice, but small, apartment building in which his family lived and then almost as an aside throws in that today there is a sign on the front of the building whose English translation would read "In memory of the inhabitants of this house, including 40 young children, deported and dead in German camps in It is likely that is just the way it is in his mind though: memories of childhood always hit the brick wall of the Holocaust. The descriptions of his life in the camps are good but not masterpieces. If you want better written or more descriptive first-hand accounts of the atrocities of the work and death camps, they are certainly out there. But that isn't really the point, is it? Every person who survived did so in his or her own way, making every story unique and worth being told. Clary's case is interesting because his later entertainment career is so closely tied to his time in the camps. He survived in part by receiving special treatment for entertaining the guards and even chose his future stage name, he was born Robert Widerman, during roll call at Buchenwald one day. Most of the second half of the autobiography deals with Clary's struggles in the entertainment world. It is a good read, fun and interesting, and perhaps the best written section, but not really what I went into the book for. He again returns to the themes of the Holocaust in the last two chapters. His discussion of filming Hogan's Heroes is brief. He answers my initial question in a rather perfunctory way From the Holocaust to Hogans Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary saying a Frenchman in a POW camp is so different from a Jew in a concentration camp that the question is mootbut he does at least answer it. The final chapter on revisiting the Holocaust is one of the best in the book. He explains that from the moment he got out of the camp he did his best to never think or speak of his time there. Then in he watched a documentary about a survivor of Auschwitz who mentioned she felt she had to tell her story now because someday there would be no survivors left and the Holocaust deniers could gain more ground and make it easier for it to happen again. It was only after this that he truly confronted his own emotions concerning what he had endured and he began to speak publicly about his time in the camps and the deaths of those he knew. The buried emotions exposed during this time of his life make me wonder if he would have felt the same doing a Hogan's Heroes type show then as he did previously. Mar 08, Leila Kern rated it really liked it. Growing up one of my favorite shows was Hogan's Heros so I was very interested in reading Mr. Clary's book. While Mr. Clary is not a professional writer, I felt he wrote with passion and very clearly about his experiences.