The Presidents’ Tailor is a new 39-minute documentary about the late Martin Greenfield, a Brooklyn-based celebrity tailor who learned his craft while in Auschwitz during the Holocaust and passed away at the age of 95 this past March.
The production, by filmmaker Rick Minnich, will premiere at the Marlene Meyerson JCC on the Upper West Side tonight.
Folks will then get to see it at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village during a week-long run through September 24. Tickets for each showing are available right here.
The documentary will run through the tailor’s life, including his teenage years spent in Auschwitz, where he learned how to sew after accidentally ripping an SS officer’s shirt, as told by the subject himself.
“Four years later, he re-invented himself as the American Martin Greenfield, and was making suits for the former general and future US president Dwight D. Eisenhower, who liberated him from Buchenwald in 1945,” reads an official synopsis of the production. “From his modest beginning as a floor boy at the GGG factory in Brooklyn in the late-1940s, Martin built a bespoke menswear empire together with his sons Jay and Tod with a client list that reads like a Who’s Who of the US entertainment industry. Widely considered the greatest tailor in America, Martin remained a much-beloved figurehead at Greenfield Clothiers until Covid finally forced him into retirement at age 91.”
A tale of true survival and reinvention, The Presidents’ Tailor is sure to warm your heart and remind you all about the power of faith.
