US: Martin Greenfield who survived the Holocaust died at 95 to become the tailor of presidents and stars

Martin Greenfield, who survived the Holocaust and came to sew for their presidents and stars, died at the age of 95. Greenfield was one of the survivors of his hellhole. Martin Greenfield survived Auschwitz concentration camp to become the tailor of American presidents and celebrities. Announcing his death, the New York Times are talking about a “tower” of immigration to the US. Maximilian Grynfeld was born in 1928 in a Czechoslovak village currently owned by Ukraine. A child of a wealthy family, he was one of the orphans who accidentally escaped death in a concentration camp. In 1947, he sought refuge in America with ten dollars in his pocket. Martin Greenfield’s suits are among the most famous on the planet. Thousands of famous Americans have worn them: six presidents, among them the last three, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, star of cinema, music and sport such as Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant, and even the famous mobster Meyer Lansky. In the obituary published on the New York Times leaf on Thursday, March 21, it is noted that “the suffering and triumphs experienced by Martin Greenfield belong to the classic myth of immigration to America.” Life in the martyr Auschwitz Teenager prisoner in an extermination camp, Maximilian Grynfeld worked at the laundry room for Nazi clothes. One day, he accidentally ripped a guard’s shirt collar. He was beaten and ordered to repair it, narrating in his memoirs. A prisoner teaches him how to sew. He repairs the shirt, but decides to keep it and wears it under his uniform. This saved his life. “The first day I wore this shirt, I realized that clothes have power,” writes Martin Greenfield in his book “Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents’ Tailor”. So the Nazis and his cellmates think he’s an apprentice who sews uniforms. He’s free to move around the camp and has access to food. “Two torn Nazi shirts allowed a Jew to create America’s most famous and robust costume studio sur mesure”, he writes. From the errand boy to the top Upon arriving in America, he worked as a child for errands at a Brooklyn sewing studio and learned English at a night school. He remained for 30 years in the studio where he became director of production. In 1977 he bought the sewing studio from his employer and founded the “Martin Greenfield Clothiers” firm that has been dressing entrepreneurs, grooms, presidents and stars for decades. Today, it’s the last studio in New York. The 50 workers use manual sewing machines and it takes ten hours to sew up a suit that will dress a politician or a star.