The French-born Clary studied under the multi-talented Eddie Cantor.

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“He also played Pierre Jourdan on “The Bold and the Beautiful” in the early 1990s.

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As well as being a soap star, Clary also educated people about the tragedy of the Holocaust.

In 2015, he toldThe Hollywood Reporterthat he came from a family of 14 children.

At a camp called Buchenwald, Clary said it had a theater, and the prisoners would perform often.

Robert Clary at the Holocaust museum

“I would sing,” he said, “and that made me stay alive.”

After publishing the book, he traveled around giving lectures about the Holocaust and his experiences.

In 1985, Clarynarrated a videoabout the life of another Holocaust survivor named Jacob Hennenberg.