Martin Greenfield, a Holocaust survivor and tailor to celebrities, U.S. presidents and many others, died Wednesday in Long Island at age 95.
survivor and tailor to celebrities, athletes, U.S. presidents and many others, died Wednesday on Long Island at age 95.
parents, two sisters, brother and grandparents were killed, but the young Greenfield was spared, as he worked in the camp’s alterations shop, fixing Nazi troops’ shirts, according to the“The pain is still in my heart about my family,” Greenfield said in one of his company’s videos. “I still dream about my family, like they are alive. But on the outside, you will never know.”a year and two months at Auschwitz before his liberation from the death camp.
Over the decades, Greenfield’s clientele ran the gamut from celebrities and athletes such as the late Paul Newman and actor Jimmy Fallon to U.S. presidents including Barack Obama and Donald Trump, according toFormer President Dwight Eisenhower, who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers in Europe when Auschwitz was liberated, later became one of Greenfield’s most iconic clients.
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