Martin Greenfield

In 1977, Greenfield bought GGG Clothing, and renamed it to Martin Greenfield Clothiers. The company would grow from six employees at the time to 117 by 2010.

Greenfield married his wife, Arlene, in 1956. They have two sons, Jay and Tod. Both sons work at Martin Greenfield Clothiers, and Jay, his elder son, serves as executive vice president. His personal memoir, entitled Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor, was published in 2014.

Greenfield spent the next two years in Europe, looking for his remaining immediate family, unaware that they had all been killed. His father was killed one week before his camp was liberated. In 1947, at the age of 19, he boarded a ship to the United States, and stayed with wealthy relatives in Baltimore. Soon afterward, he moved to New York City, where an aunt of his lived.

In 1947, a Czech immigrant guided him to GGG Clothing, a clothing manufacturer in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, where he was hired as a "floor boy". Over the next decade, his tailoring skills and reputation grew. His first major client, in the early 1950s, was General Eisenhower, then preparing to run for the presidency.

Near the end of World War II, Greenfield was moved along with other Auschwitz prisoners to the Buchenwald concentration camp. In April 1945, the American army stormed the camp, and liberated its prisoners. As the troops passed through the camp, Greenfield stopped a young rabbi who was serving as a U.S. Army chaplain and asked him, "where was God?". The rabbi, Herschel Schacter, later told Greenfield that he had never forgotten the question. Later, General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrived to supervise the liberation, and Greenfield shook his hand; coincidentally, standing next to Greenfield at the time was Elie Wiesel, who would later become famous writing about his time in the concentration camps.

Martin Greenfield (born Maxmilian Grunfeld on August 9, 1928) is an American master tailor, based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in men's suits. He has been described as the best men's tailor in the United States. His list of clients includes six U.S. Presidents, as well as other notable politicians and celebrities. His company, Martin Greenfield Clothiers, has also fashioned men's suits as “Joker Tags” for clothing lines DKNY and Rag & Bone, and the television show Boardwalk Empire.

Greenfield was born on August 9, 1928 to a Jewish family in Pavlovo, a small village located in Carpathian Ruthenia, on the southeastern tip of Slovakia in what is now Ukraine. At age 14, Greenfield was rounded up along with his father, mother, two sisters, brother and grandparents. All were transported to Auschwitz concentration camp., where his two sisters, infant brother and grandparents were immediately sent to the gas chamber, followed shortly after by his mother, who was unable to let go of her baby. With Greenfield and his father being the only ones left, they opted to separate as Greenfield's father posited that they would both have a better chance of survival apart.

His company also created the suits for the 1920s-set HBO television show Boardwalk Empire.