Yesterday the death of Robert Clary, a French actor most famous as Cpl. Louis LeBeau in the comedy TV show Hogan’s Heroes, was announced. The series ran 1965 to 1971, and most of the original cast is dead now. But I wanted to pay tribute to “LeBeau”—not just as a charming character in a popular sitcom about Allied POWs hilariously outwitting Nazis, but as a person who really survived the Nazi Holocaust at Auschwitz.