Brenner’s Children’s Shop in Norwood closing after 49 years
NORWOOD — Approximately everybody in Norwood whose boy or girl wore a baptism or 1st communion outfit, or afterwards joined a troop and needed a scout uniform, has stepped up to the counter at Brenner’s.
The shop sells children’s clothing, religious outfits, scouting extras, and some neighborhood college uniforms.
Following 49 decades, the Greenfield relatives will quickly shut up store at Brenner’s Kid’s Shop for good.
Aron Greenfield will switch 96 upcoming 7 days, which is impressive looking at it was a lie about his age that saved his existence.
“I was 15. I would’ve long gone to Auschwitz and into the chimney, as they say. But my mother mentioned to me, ‘Tell them you might be 16,'” he recalled.
That lie, and a mother’s enjoy, spared him from dying. But just hardly.
“He told me, ‘To the suitable,’ and from that time on, I went to one particular focus camp to another, and nine of them. Most of us could not wander any more. Skin and bones. Skeletons. Folks do not have an understanding of what hunger means,” Greenfield explained.
He misplaced both of those parents, and seven siblings. Enjoy and joy have been stolen from him, but not eternally. He’d locate it again, many years later on, at a Polish dance in Dorchester soon after assembly his wife Martha. Two have due to the fact developed a household and a company.
“His life, he basically lived it by way of his customers’ small youngsters due to the fact he didn’t have any of that,” stated Martha.
Greenfield seemed evil in the eye, but by some means saved a twinkle in his individual He stayed superior inside of. And it is really a legacy of very good that the family will depart downtown.
“It truly is something we generally will treasure. For the reason that this was our lifetime, amongst the two of us,” Martha included.
Aron and Martha Greenfield
They are performing on offering stock before they finally shut. They are seeking forward to a move with their daughter’s spouse and children and much more time with their three grandchildren.
