A good read: master tailor Martin Greenfield’s obituary. “Two ripped Nazi shirts helped this Jew build America’s most famous and successful custom-suit company.”
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Thanks for this.
Uh wow. "As a teenager, Mr. Greenfield was Maximilian Grünfeld...."
My father (also a Holocaust survivor) was also named Grunfeld. He adopted a Hebrew name after the war. And he grew up about 100 miles from Martin Greenfield. I wonder if we are related.
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