He survived the Auschwitz concentration camp and became the star’s favorite tailor
He survived the Auschwitz concentration camp to become the tailor of American presidents and stars. Martin Greenfield died yesterday at the age of 95. Announcing his death, the New York Times spoke of a “legend” of immigration to America.
Maximilian Greenfeld was born in 1928 in a village in Czechoslovakia which today belongs to Ukraine. Child of a wealthy family, he was one of the orphans who luckily escaped death in a concentration camp. In 1947, he sought refuge in America with ten dollars in his pocket.
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Martin Greenfield’s costumes are among the most famous on the planet. Thousands of famous Americans have worn them: six presidents, including the last three, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, movie, music and sports stars such as Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant and even the famous mobster Mager Lansky.
The obituary published in today’s New York Times notes that “Martin Greenfield’s sufferings and triumphs belong to the classic myth of immigration in America.”
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As a teenage extermination camp inmate, Maximilian Grinfeld worked in the laundry for Nazi clothing. One day, he accidentally tore the collar of a guard’s shirt. They beat him and ordered him to fix it, he recounts in his memoirs. A prisoner teaches him to sew. He fixes the shirt, but decides to keep it and wears it under his uniform. This saved his life.
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