Glauben died early Thursday morning on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Holocaust survivor Max Glauben poses for a photo at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum in September, 2019. Glauben died Thursday at 94.Max Glauben, who as a teenager survived the Nazi invasion of his native Warsaw and his own harrowing internment in a death camp, and who became a tireless advocate for the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, died early Thursday on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.Glauben moved to Dallas in 1951 after proudly enlisting in the U.S. Army.
Glauben’s own story is a permanent part of the chilling narrative expressed in the museum, where he appears as a holographic image meant to last until the end of time. His is one of 19 interactive testimonies, taken from Holocaust survivors all over the world. He appears in the Dimensions in Testimony Theater, which costs $2.5 million to assemble. The holographic project is a partnership between the museum and the USC Shoah Foundation, founded by three-time Oscar winner Steven Spielberg.
Glauben’s mother, younger brother and much of his extended family died in the gas chamber at the Majdanek death camp in Lublin, Poland, one of many ghastly sites whose story is told in a museum display. Glauben and his father were transported to a labor camp, which for a while meant hope — temporary, albeit grim survival.
A holographic image of Glauben appears in the Dimensions in Testimony interactive exhibit at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.