Holocaust Survivor Pens ‘Thank You’ To Vets And Liberators

(Newsmax) – A survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps who would forge a new life in America as a famed tailor says he owes everything to God and the “soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines of the U.S. Armed Forces” who liberated him.

“Everything I am or will ever be I owe to God and the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines of the U.S. Armed Forces who fought and died to liberate me,” writes Martin Greenfield in a New York Post column.

Greenfield, who came to the United States after the war, says that Americans who believe “that America has seen her best days” just need to look to the members of the armed forces to be proven wrong.

“America is bigger and stronger than the vexing problems we now face. Lest one doubt this, simply look at our nation’s 2.4 million Armed Forces members. There you will find the best of us,” he says.

Greenfield, whose first job after arriving in America was as a floor boy in a Brooklyn garment factory, would eventually work his way up the ladder and within a decade was making suits for the factory and its famous clients, according to a Washington Post profile.

The author of the new book “Measure of a Man: From Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents’ Tailor,” Greenfield says of the men and women who liberated the concentration camps, “they rescued me, and America welcomed me here and eventually claimed me as one of her own.”

He also praises the families of the veterans.

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