[3] At age 12, he began a career singing professionally on a French radio station and also studied art in Paris.

I wake up in a sweat terrified for fear I'm about to be sent away to a concentration camp, but I don't hold a grudge because that's a great waste of time.

[7] When he returned to Paris after World War II, he reunited with six of his thirteen siblings and half-siblings and several nieces and nephews who had avoided being taken away and survived the Nazi occupation of France.

[8] Clary returned to the entertainment business and began singing songs that became popular not only in France, but in the United States as well.

[2] In the mid-1950s, Clary appeared on NBC's early sitcom The Martha Raye Show and on CBS's drama anthology series Appointment with Adventure.

[citation needed] Clary's comedic skills were quickly recognized by Broadway, where he appeared in several popular musicals, including Leonard Sillman's revue New Faces of 1952, which was produced as a film in 1954.

[citation needed] In 1952, he appeared in the film Thief of Damascus which also starred Paul Henreid and Lon Chaney Jr.

[citation needed] In 1959, he was cast in the title role of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in a British production of an Edward Chodorov play, Monsieur Lautrec.

[11] Although The Stage panned the play, it praised Clary for portraying Lautrec "with a delicacy and yet moving intenseness.

When the show went on the air, people asked me if I had any qualms about doing a comedy series dealing with Nazis and concentration camps.

Clary also appeared on the soap operas Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, and The Bold and the Beautiful.

[1] Clary appeared in the 1975 film The Hindenburg, which portrayed a fictional plot to blow up the German airship after it arrived at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station.

[2] Clary was among dozens of Holocaust survivors whose portraits and stories were included in 1997 book “The Triumphant Spirit,” by photographer Nick Del Calzo.