{{Short description|American educator}} '''Max Glauben''' (born '''Moniek Mendel Glauben''' on January 14, 1928, in Warsaw, Poland; died April 28, 2022, in Dallas, Texas)<ref name="WFAA">{{cite news |last1=Woodard |first1=Teresa |title=Thank you for being my friend, Max: Reflecting on the life of 94-year-old Holocaust survivor Max Glauben |url=https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/the-life-of-94-year-old-holocaust-survivor-max-glauben/287-7aa75a64-7041-432c-a65a-a4361fc95cd6 |access-date=2023-01-30 |publisher=WFAA |date=2022-04-28}}</ref> was a Polish-born American educator, community organizer, writer, and Holocaust survivor.
Between 1940 and 1945, Glauben survived the Warsaw Ghetto, the Majdanek death camp, the Budzyń concentration camp, and the Dachau concentration camp.<ref name="TSHA" />
After liberation, Glauben moved to the United States and settled in Dallas in the early 1950s. He was drafted into the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and worked in the toy industry until his retirement.<ref name="TSHA" />
In the late 1970s, Glauben began to speak about his experience during the Holocaust. Along with several other Dallas-area Holocaust survivors, Glauben was one of the co-founders of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, which opened in 1984.<ref name="TSHA">{{cite web |last1=Allison |first1=Benjamin |title=Max Glauben |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/glauben-max |website=Handbook of Texas |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |access-date=2023-01-30}}</ref>
For "being a source of hope and inspiration for his message of tolerance, fairness and forgiveness," the Dallas Morning News named Glauben its "Texan of the Year" in 2019.<ref name="AP Texan of the Year">{{cite news |title=A Holocaust survivor is Dallas newspaper’s Texan of the Year |url=https://apnews.com/article/f4fd67da2004edd2597b28346b79b68f |publisher=Associated Press |date=2019-12-19}}</ref>
==Personal life== Glauben's mother Faiga and younger brother Heniek were murdered in the gas chambers at Majdenek. Glauben's father Isaak was killed by guards at Budzyn.
==Awards and honors== * Texan of the Year, ''Dallas Morning News'' (2019)<ref name="AP Texan of the Year" /> * Doctor of Humane Letters, Southern Methodist University (SMU) (2020)<ref name="Dallas Holocaust Museum">{{cite web |title=Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Mourns the Loss of Holocaust Survivor Max Glauben |url=https://www.dhhrm.org/press-releases/dallas-holocaust-and-human-rights-museum-mourns-the-loss-of-max-glauben-holocaust-survivor-and-museum-co-founder-and-celebrates-his-legacy-as-an-upstander/ |website=Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum |access-date=2023-01-30}}</ref> * Hope for Humanity award, Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum (2021)
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