The President's Tailor - Screening and discussion

Screening and discussion with filmmaker and Villa Aurora Fellow 2006, Rick Minnich. Maxmilian Grünfeld learned to sew while mending shirts for SS soldiers in Auschwitz when he was fifteen. 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. The Presidents’ Tailor is a short documentary about how one man transformed into the other against all odds.