Here is a rare 1992 video of Robert Clary (from TV's Hogan's Heroes & Broadway's New Faces as well as many films & recordings) speaking for one hour about his 3 years in the concentration camps.
I met Mr. Clary when I was in Jr.High when he came to our school to share his story. I remember walking home very quietly and didn't make it to my room before I began to cry for what felt like hours mourning the loss of life. Mr. Clary has forever changed my life. I am forever grateful.
You are a much wiser person now. You probably have much more value for life..family..and friends. I didn't know what he had been thru....just knew his acting
One of the most heartbreaking, thoughtful, honest, poignant, informative and powerful stories on the Holocaust by a survivor I've ever seen and heard. Robert Clary, God bless you, and thank you for educating us.
I... I have tears in my eyes. As a child of the 1970's I remember watching him in Hogan's Heroes. I would never have imagined he went through that kind of hell. Listening to this I've learned some of Frances role... It touched me that he mentioned the African American experience once he got to the United States after barely surviving the monsters of his own country. Today is 11/17/2022, The day after he died and after watching this... I'm so sorry to see him go. The world really needs this speech now more than ever! Rest in peace Mr. Clary
That’s interesting that I just pulled this video up too. I knew he was a Holocaust survivor. I didn’t know his whole story. It was so intense, heartbreaking, and I need to share with my son and post on my FB page
Thank you for standing up to the revisionists. I also wish that the soldiers who first came to the camps would have spoken out more of what they found.
We must never, never forget. Well said Mr Robert Clary, very well said. This video brought tears to my eyes and fear in my heart that if these truths are forgotten or hidden it could happen again.
Wow... As a child I loved his character on Hogan's Heroes... As an adult... I know he should be the international lecturer... the testimony to the truth... this his how he should be remembered for eternity.
I read his biography because I loved his character on Hogan's Heroes so much. I was in my late teens/early 20's. I remember asking my public library to buy a copy, just so I could get my hands on it. I was so excited to read it. I loved his bio. I was deeply moved by his life's journey. I remember crying while reading it. Thank you for sharing your story, Mr Clary. The world needs it to remember.
@@sdgakatbk That's what I thought too! I wasn't just excited for myself, but, for future readers. His story is one that should be read alongside Anne Frank's. Maybe for older kids, but, still read.
Thank you very much for this. I was born in 1992 and, as Mr. Clary appears to be implying, I am also a secular Jew. My jewish grandfather was born in Hungary in 1926 and also experienced the horrors of the Holocaust. He pasted away in 2002 so, i never got to talk with him about it but my mother said that he never liked to discuss it for obvious reasons. She said that he really enjoyed Hogans Heroes. As a 26 year old, I love this show and I watch it on tv and the internet a lot. I love the characters, the plot, the impressions, the humor and it is just a joy to watch. Thank you to all the cast and to you Mr. Clary for your work and for speaking out. It would be an honor to shake your hand sir. All the best!
Wow, I've been looking for Robert Clary's story for so long. It's ironic that the love of a kid's show led me to learn more about the holocaust. I was shocked when I found out the Hogan's Heroes star was the sole survivor of a family of nine. I came of age in the 70s. I understand what he's talking about. I never thought in 2021 it would be so significant.
This was amazing to listen to in its profundity and gut-wrenching sadness. I started to watch it right before bed out of curiosity and could not turn away. An hour later I sit here with such a terrible weight in my heart. Thank you for sharing this video, these kinds of lessons and stories about history and the personal aspects of the people who survived it are too often forgotten nowadays. When my son is older, I know I will share this video with him so he can know this story and understand the implications of lessons we should never forget. God Bless.
The truest and most poignant recollections of that horrific period are told not by documentaries, but by the personal stories of those such as Mr. Clary. The world will be a lessor place when they have all passed. Thank you very much Mr. Clary! I'm sorry for the tragic loss of your family yet happy that you survived to educate the world.
In 1985, the History Club and the Lectures and Films Committee of Rhode Island College invited Mr. Clary to speak over two days to classes and to a packed auditorium about his experiences during the Holocaust. I was privileged to invite him through the Wiesenthal Center and to make the local arrangements for his trip. Over the two days of his visit, I was enthralled, saddened, outraged and more importantly, educated about the horrors of the Holocaust and his own extraordinary personal experiences. When he appeared before the SRO crowd in Gaige Auditorium, he was introduced by our then college president, John Nazarian, whose parents were Armenian genocide refugees. Once President Nazarian introduced him, Mr. Clary spoke for over an hour and in that hour, he held us in the palm of his hand. There wasn't a sound from the audience at first (the proverbial "could have heard a pin drop") and as he spoke, more and more people began to sniffle and to cry and by the time the formal presentation ended, there literally wasn't a dry eye in the house. Even President Nazarian was in tears because of how Mr. Clary's story of suffering triggered memories of the stories of his parents and other relatives who had escaped from the Armenian massacres by the Ottoman Turks. As long as I live, I will never forget that experience nor will I forget how much Mr. Clary moved me and moved the souls of nearly a thousand others with me who, for a brief time, shared his story and his pain and his genuine joie de vivre. My only regret is that more of my friends and colleagues, especially here at my school where I teach world history, won't ever experience his incredible ability to make us see through his words one of the most important and devastating events of evil in history.
Thank you Robert, if I was in that audience, my question would be, when filming Hogan's Heroes, did you have any bad memories still seeing actors dressed up as Germans. If it was me, I be crying every night. Mr, clary I'm 60 years old and I watch Hogan's Heroes since the 1970 till this very day. My hats off to you, Corporal LeBeau, bless you sir....
The "killer" if you will was that virtually every German on the show - Klink, Schultz, Burkhalter and Hochstetter were ALL Jews. Many of them did it to make the nazis look like fools, but John Banner said he played Schultz to show the world that while he was a Jew, he was also German, and not every German was cruel and heartless and that there were victims on both sides. Robert survived because in the camp he behaved like Le Beau - he sang and danced and told jokes and stories and the guards found him amusing enough to keep alive. His life meant nothing more to them than entertainment for themselves.
I just came across this on RU-vid. What a wonderful speaker. I was in tears listening to his story. How wonderful to have this testimony forever. I hope those kids he was talking to never forget this speech. He was so right. Power hungry people always make the world worse.
I visited the Buchenwald site last week knowing Robert Clary's story. Let's hope the lessons of the past are learned so that they cannot be repeated in the future. Rest in Peace Robert Clary.
Robert Clary speaks clearly and should be listened to. He speaks out about what Trump is advocating about what Hispanics, Jews, Moslems native Americans and Asians will have to go through.
I feel terrible for Robert Clary and other survivors of the Holocaust, the hell they went through, losing so many members of their families, and the trauma and nightmares that they have to endure for the rest of their lives. I hope and pray that they can find peace with God!
What "A BRAVE" Young Man "YOU" were Robert Clary to have survived "ALL" that you went through from age 16 to 19. Brings me to tears your description of "ALL" that you went through & that so many others went through as well, in this talk that you have given for "ALL" of us to hear, "before" your own death in Nov. 2022. Your Mother & Father must of smiled down upon you from Heaven, as you gave this talk when you were alive upon this earth & they would of been so "VERY" proud of "YOU" relaying to other's your message "To not hate." "Thank you" & "God rest your soul" and may your "JOY" now "BE GREAT" for you as you are reunited with your Dear Parent's & Your "BEAUTIFUL LOVING Mother" & also Your beloved Wife of whom you "LOVED" "SOOOO VERY MUCH" ALL on the other side of Heaven with "YOU" now. May Your JOY be great now & "Thank You" also to the person who put this talk out there on You Tube so "THAT WE NEVER FORGET."
Thank you for talking about this hard topic. As one of Jehovah WittnessesI have heard muchof what happen in the campa. There was many Jehovah wittnesses in the camps. We as human need to know the truth of these horor. Love what you doing for all those who had some history . You open my eyes to much more then I have heard.. can't thank you enough Robert for speaking our.
I had a cousin I could not find a Marcus from my grandmothers sister Toby who died in Poland because he was a musician but desired to be a doctor. Mr. Clary is unbelievable.
Thank you. I am very interested in this, as I have thought i am Jewish for a long time. When my Mother passed, in with her Jewelry, I found the mezuzah which is on the side of the door. Thank you again
was in Germany as a little kid in a civil camp, a refugee from the Soviet; didn't know squat about the Nazis /// only later, at 16 yrs old, after reading Anna Franks's Diary, I was shaken by the abominable Holocaust.
An amazing story from an amazing man. Please keep the history of the Holocaust alive and remember the horrors committed by men on their fellow man. This was true racism.
I think I now understand "Col. Hogan's" requests for "an extra slice of bread"........if it were up to me "Oui....in fact Pico/Robertson...it's called Beverlywood Bakery"
People talk, people talk alot. Wait until they actually see the consequences of their words. Watch the Nuremburg Trials. Listen to people talk about how things were. Deplorable, that people can do this to other people. I have seen the films, I need no more, I want no more.
How were you able to be in Hogan's Hero's and not have bad dreams and flashbacks? I was a child and didn't watch that show very much. Even at a young age I didn't think there was anything funny about war or concentration camps. I still don't. You are a great speaker, teacher and a good example of endurence to the end.
My mom hated "Hogan's Heroes." She complained that WWII and Nazis were nothing to make light of. She experienced nothing of the horrors, yet this man and others with there own dark experiences of Nazi Germany thought it was fine to participate in the TV series. I'm very confused.
Read there comments and views on why they did the show. It brings a strong understanding to why they did the show. The actor who played Klink required that the German always be shown as a fool.
@@tomryugo5742 both he, John Banner and Leon Ashkenasy all mentioned that while they were glad to get out of Germany/Austria before the war, they were a bit disappointed that they also got typecast and offered roles as Nazis!! But they all loved Hogan's Heroes as it meant they could lampoon Nazis
1:00 I can say I'm a survivor of the United States and British pharmaceutical and psychiatric industry Dat disability doc should watch and listen, show his military, nsa, irs, cia, and fbi friends too
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I don't think you watched the same video. Every BLM (I am one of those) and every AntiFa (I am one of them as well) should watch this and redouble their efforts.
@@radiation0111 STFU Biden is not a saint we know that but your moronic tRump is a diff. matter all together. The only Nazi is Trump and now all of the GOP and their followers which you airhead is one of them
I like to meet Robert clay he stayed alive by acting and dancing I feel bad about his family I think the German government was jealous at ww2 of the Jewish people
I'm embarrassed to say I had to stop listening at 44:15. Embarrassed because although he lived through it, I am not even strong enough to hear and serve as his witness. I don't have words to express my emotions right now. Except for fear. I feel great fear. That the world forgets or refuses to believe, and it happens again. The US has White supremacists in office now. Non-believers. New age Hitlers. Yes fear. Great fear.
Not White supremacists, anti american. AOC, Harris and the rest of that clan aren't white. you believe the media and their lies. Remember that hitler needed to take away guns to do this and use fear from rioting and getting rid of the police. Who shows hatred towards Jews and the Christians ? The democrats.
As a teenager I first saw Robert Clary in movie called new faces with Aluce Ghostly. I became a fan and still am,more so for his dedication to keeping a very sad part of our history alive.
I just came across this on RU-vid. What a wonderful speaker. I was in tears listening to his story. How wonderful to have this testimony forever. I hope those kids he was talking to never forget this speech. He was so right. Power hungry people always make the world worse.
