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Joseph Sher, a Holocaust survivor who became a New Orleans tailor with such celebrity clients as Fats Domino and Elvis Presley, has died at 100.

Sher died March 24 at Lambeth House, a New Orleans retirement community and assisted-living facility, the Times-Picayune reported. He was the oldest Holocaust survivor in New Orleans and the leader of the local survivor community, according to the Crescent City Jewish News.

During the Holocaust, Sher was sent to several Nazi-run slave labor camps, where he was forced to build roads. Only three of 1,000 men on his detail survived. Sher, his two brothers and his wife survived the Holocaust, but he lost his parents and three sisters, who died at Treblinka.

In 1949, Sher, his wife and a child born in a displaced persons camp settled in New Orleans, where he found work as a tailor, a trade he learned from his father in Poland.

“He could take a piece of fabric from anywhere on a garment and make the garment absolutely new looking,” his son Leopold told the Times-Picayune. — jta