Max Glauben

Max Glauben (1928–2023) survived the Warsaw Ghetto, five Nazi concentration camps, and a death march — losing his parents, brother, and nearly his entire family to the Holocaust. Born Mordechai Glauben in Warsaw, Poland, he was eleven years old when the war began. He watched his mother and brother murdered before his eyes, and his father perished in the camps. After liberation by American forces in 1945, Max emigrated to Dallas, Texas, where he built a new life, raised a family, and became one of the most dedicated Holocaust educators in America. He spoke to over a million students across six decades, co-founded the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, and recorded his testimony for USC Shoah Foundation's Dimensions in Testimony project so future generations could hear his story. Max believed that hate destroys the person who carries it, and he told his story not for vengeance, but so the world would never forget.