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The anatomy of Barack Obama’s tan suit (opens the original)
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If you have former President Barack Obama’s famous tan suit, Jay Greenfield can confirm it’s the real thing. “It could easily be identified,” he told me. He and his brother Tod run Martin Greenfield Clothiers in Brooklyn, New York. They are the sons of Martin Greenfield, a Holocaust survivor who sewed his first stitches while a prisoner in Auschwitz, who went on to make custom suits for Obama, other presidents and an array of political figures, as well as famous actors and athletes. “Everything
The remarkable story of the Holocaust survivor who made Barack Obama’s tan suit (opens the original)
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The story behind former President Barack Obama’s missing tan suit starts with Maxmilian Grünfeld, who was 15 when he arrived at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp by cattle car with his mother, father, two sisters, brother and grandparents in the spring of 1944. He was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. He later came to the United States, changed his name to Martin Greenfield and became a famous tailor in Brooklyn, New York. Greenfield’s first sewing lesson was in the concentrati
The remarkable story of the Holocaust survivor who made Barack Obama’s tan suit (opens the original)
Read excerpt
The story behind former President Barack Obama’s missing tan suit starts with Maxmilian Grünfeld, who was 15 when he arrived at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp by cattle car with his mother, father, two sisters, brother and grandparents in the spring of 1944. He was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. He later came to the United States, changed his name to Martin Greenfield and became a famous tailor in Brooklyn, New York. Greenfield’s first sewing lesson was in the concentrati
The anatomy of Barack Obama’s tan suit (opens the original)
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If you have former President Barack Obama’s famous tan suit, Jay Greenfield can confirm it’s the real thing. “It could easily be identified,” he told me. He and his brother Tod run Martin Greenfield Clothiers in Brooklyn, New York. They are the sons of Martin Greenfield, a Holocaust survivor who sewed his first stitches while a prisoner in Auschwitz, who went on to make custom suits for Obama, other presidents and an array of political figures, as well as famous actors and athletes. “Everything
Emmett Till, Dr. King, Obama and Aug. 28 (opens the original)
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I’ve been trying to connect a lot of dots in my pursuit of former President Barack Obama’s famous tan suit. But here’s the tricky part about connecting dots, even for me, an experienced journalist: First, you’ve got to find them. I’m on the hunt for the tan suit Obama wore to a White House press conference in 2014 — the one that sparked attacks from right-wing critics eager to diminish the nation’s first Black president. The suit is not in the recently opened museum at the Obama Presidential Cen
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