. >>> the words above the gate say arbeit macht frei -- work makes you free.eenfield was sent to work as a tailor. when he ripped a guard's shirt, it could have finished him. instead it saved his life. ♪ >> we were the last transport. i was 14 years old. that's when my life stopped being what it was. my name is martin greenfield, and i survived auschwitz, and i'm happy about it. you see the gates to get into the camp. you see the guys who come to help get us off the prisoners and the stripes, and they were not talking to us. i was still a kid, you know. they showered us, and they gave us the stripes. they gave us some kind of shoe, no socks, no underwear. nothing. then my father and i got tattooed together. and then my father sat down with me, and he said, "you are strong. i'm strong. we're both going to survive. you got discipline. you learn things. we taught you how to survive, how to live." when i got to auschwitz, they put me in the tailor shop. i wanted to build cars. i was a grease monkey. i didn't know anything about tailoring. i was a kid. a tailor, i