Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to American presidents, dies at 95
'Receiving your first tailoring lesson inside a Nazi concentration camp was hardly the ideal apprenticeship,' Greenfield once recalled
'Receiving your first tailoring lesson inside a Nazi concentration camp was hardly the ideal apprenticeship,' Greenfield once recalled
“So much happened in that time. My dad was really a great guy — I guess you could say, in the end, that he was a salesman. “ This is a love story from another time, a saga that transcends borders. Our tale begins in Poland, where Harry Korniarski was born, and winds its way…
It’s not easy doing business from Gaza but tailor Mohammad Abu Shanab has found a demand he can supply — his sewing factory is churning out religious skull caps, for devout Jewish men. Since Israel resumed importing clothing from Gaza in 2015, Abu Shanab has renewed commercial contacts to sell merchandise to neighboring Israel. With…
Martin Greenfield has been a tailor to the presidents, from Dwight Eisenhower to Barack Obama. As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office on Friday, it’s unclear if the new leader will get some threads from the 88-year-old Holocaust survivor. “We made some suits for him right before he decided to run, but we haven’t…
It turns out an Indian-born tailor has a yiddishe kop when it comes to making suits for observant Jews. He has attracted many customers concerned about upholding the prohibition against wearing shatnez by making a line of suits that are certified as free of the mixture of wool and linen forbidden by the Torah. Mohan…
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