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STANLEY & BONNIE GLOGOVER

Father and Daughter Innovators   A Legacy That Lives On

Some bonds don’t just survive history, they transform it.

Holocaust Survivor Stanley Glogover and his daughter Bonnie built a legacy defined by courage, creativity, and purpose an unbreakable promise between father and daughter.

Born Szlamek (Shlomo) in Maków Mazowiecki, Poland, Stanley Glogover grew up in a prosperous family until World War II shattered everything. From 1939-1945 he survived the ghettos, Auschwitz (#81481), Dr. Mengele’s skull experiments without anesthesia, and a near-execution halted only by his father’s desperate bribe of a fur coat. A fellow prisoner, Bruno, hid him and saved his life.

After his liberation, wearing a stolen SS coat, Stanley rolled down an Alpine mountainside and escaped to Italy. In a DP camp in Bari, he made the impossible discovery; his father, long presumed dead, was alive. Together, they emigrated to America in 1947.

Stanley rebuilt his life with astonishing drive. In New York, he completed the Fashion Institute program in one year instead of three and went on to teach there.

He became a quiet legend in the industry, patenting the first nursing and maternity bras and designing garments that restore dignity and beauty to women’s lives. Even after losing Bahamian investments to nationalization, he never stopped creating; every elegant design was, in his words and actions, a form of “quiet revenge” against a regime that had tried to erase him.

Stanley spoke tirelessly in schools, recorded his testimony for Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation (USHMM VHA28862), and returned to Auschwitz in 2007 to pray for his murdered family.

Bonnie turned remembrance into movement. She conceived the I REMEMBER AGAINST GENOCIDE® collection and successfully lobbied Congress in 2000 to establish National Holocaust Remembrance Day (Congressional Record, January 31, 2001, p. 1043). She also helped produce the 2017 documentary Destination Unknown, which features her father among the last surviving witnesses. https://www.congress.gov/107/crec/2001/01/31/CREC-2001-01-31-pt1-PgH118.pdf

Stanley’s charge to Bonnie was simple: “Make my love useful.” Imprisonment stole his youth, but not his will to live fully and give fiercely. Through innovation, advocacy, and relentless remembrance, Bonnie fulfills that promise every day.

Their legacy is clear: courage in the face of evil, creativity in response to loss, and a shared refusal to let hate win. Never forget. Never again.