Talent Luck Courage: Hogan's Heroes' Robert Clary & his Sister Nicole Holland Their World War II Survival & Impact on the Second Generation

For many years, most people, including my sister and myself, were unaware that our mother's escape from Paris, France was necessitated by her being Jewish.

Until the latter part of his career, most fans were unaware that Robert Clary was a Holocaust survivor who had spent 31 months in concentration camps.

As Jews in Paris in the early 1940s, my family endured the entire spectrum of experiences resulting from Nazi occupation. Some members hid in their home towns without ever being arrested. Some were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

Fortunately for her, my mother managed to escape and join the French Resistance in order to do her part to remove the menace to her normal existence.