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Home Front: Culture Wars
Texan of the Year 2019
2019-12-30
h/t Mrs. Bobby
[Dallas News] We might say Max Glauben started becoming the 2019 Texan of the Year in 1941 when he wriggled into a cramped smuggler’s space under the false bottom of a horse-drawn wagon to sneak out of the Warsaw Ghetto in search of food. He had a homemade tool, a funnel with a sharp end, with which to siphon rice or beans out of burlap shipping sacks.

A few weeks from now, Glauben will be 92. At 5-foot-3 he’s still small enough, and probably spry enough, to fit into a smuggler’s hold. His preoccupation these days is not with hiding things, but with bringing them into the light. Glauben is one of a rapidly shrinking number of survivors who can remember what is arguably humankind’s darkest chapter. He is a tireless speaker, sharing his incredible story of survival with schools, museums and civic groups as often as he can. He is a key player in the creation of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.

Max and Frieda Glauben embody virtues our society is in danger of losing: faithfulness, authenticity, optimism, humility, wisdom, grace, and a strength that seems too much to carry in a shaky, thin-haired frame. Glauben, in German, means believe.

Earlier this year, Glauben sat for 40 hours of interviews over the course of several days, telling his story in detail and responding to hundreds of questions. All of that content is loaded into the holographic system along with voice recognition software so that museum visitors can ask him almost any question and get a response. Those 200,000 visitors per year, many of them schoolchildren on field trips, will get a near-realistic face-to-face conversation with a Holocaust survivor. When the holographic theater was unveiled earlier this year, D magazine hailed it with the headline, "Max Glauben Will Live Forever."
Sniff. Do read the whole thing. I visited the interim museum, last summer, and saw the boxcar for 40 men or eight horses, into which Max and 99 others were crammed for five days.
Posted by:Bobby

#3  Astonishing. Hope for us yet.
Thank you, Bobby
Posted by: Lex   2019-12-30 22:27  

#2  thx, Bobby
Posted by: Frank G   2019-12-30 20:18  

#1   >saw the boxcar for 40 men or eight horses, into which Max and 99 others were crammed

Did it have this symbol?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-12-30 19:57  

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