Martin Greenfield, celebrity tailor and Holocaust survivor, dead at 95

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Having trouble? Click here. Celebrity tailor and Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield died at the age of 95 last week. "Holocaust survivor, American icon, beloved by his congregational family, his abiding faith was a source of inspiration and blessing," an online obituary from Hampton Synagogue rabbis published by the New York Times reads. "To his dear wife Arlene, children, Jay and Tod and to the entire family, our heartfelt sympathy."Greenfield learned to sew while he was a prisoner in Auschwitz, according to the New York Jewish Week.

He had ripped a Nazi soldier's shirt and was taught to sew by another prisoner. He then wore the discarded shirt after fixing it."The day I first wore that shirt was the day I learned clothes possess power," Greenfield wrote in his 2014 memoir, "The Measure of a Man," New York Jewish Week quoted. "Clothes don’t just ‘make the man,’ they can save the man.They did for me." He immigrated to the United States in 1947 and got a job as a floor boy at the GGG clothing factory, according to Martin Greenfield Clothiers' website. "Martin went to night school to learn English, got his citizenship, and worked at the factory for 30 years, becoming the production manager," the company's website states. "In 1977 after his employer decided to shut down the factory Martin purchased it and established.