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Measure of a man

  • Martin Greenfield

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"He's been called 'America's greatest living tailor' and 'the most interesting man in the world.' Now, for the first time, Holocaust survivor Martin Greenfield tells his incredible life story. Taken from his Czechoslovakian home at age fifteen and transported to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz with his family, Greenfield came face to face with 'Angel of Death' Dr. Joseph Mengele and was divided forever from his [family] ... He learned how to sew; and when he began wearing the shirt under his prisoner uniform, he learned that clothes possess great power and could even help save his life [and led ultimately to his] founding America's premier custom suit company"--

Genres

  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Czech Jews
  • Jews
  • Tailors
  • Holocaust survivors
  • Businessmen
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Concentration camp inmates
  • Biography
  • Jews, united states, biography
  • Businesspeople, biography
  • Poland, biography
  • Czechoslovakia, biography
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • HISTORY / Holocaust
  • DESIGN / Fashion
  • nyt:fashion-manners-and-customs=2014-12-07
  • New York Times bestseller
  • Nazi concentration camp inmates
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • Personal Memoirs
  • HISTORY
  • Holocaust
  • DESIGN
  • Fashion
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About the author

  • Martin Greenfield

    born 1928

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    Regnery Publishing

    2014