Martin Greenfield's amazing Auschwitz survival (how, concentration, ally, San Francisco)

[Cida]

Amazing how many camp survivors owe their lives to a lucky fluke. With this, if it were in a movie, it would be shrugged off as too contrived to be believable.



Martin Greenfield, tailor to Sinatra, Obama, Trump and Shaq, dies at 95
As a teenager, Greenfield was Maximilian Grünfeld, a skinny Jewish prisoner whose job was to wash the clothes of Nazi guards at the concentration camp. In the laundry room one day, he accidentally ripped the collar of a guard’s shirt. The man whipped Max in response, then hurled the garment back at the boy.
After a fellow prisoner taught Max how to sew, he mended the collar, but then decided to keep the shirt, sliding it under the striped shirt of his prison uniform. The garment transformed his life. Other prisoners thought it signified that Max enjoyed special privileges. Guards allowed him to roam around the grounds of Auschwitz, and when he worked at a hospital kitchen, they assumed that he was authorized to take extra food.
https://artdaily.com/news/167697/Mar...aq--dies-at-95

[sera]

San Francisco, about 1968, while working in a bank, met a Beautiful co-worker, with a tattooed number on the left side of her inside arm. Like Martin, she was useful, worked as a telephone operator.

Possibly learned too, from.the book, The Tattoo Artist of Auschwitz, it was only 1 of 2 camps that had such tattoos.

[twinkletwinkle22]

At Auschwitz his father said to him "If you survive you live for us." His family died in the concentration camp and he survived.

One of my high school teachers survived the Holocaust, she had a tattooed number, on her wrist.