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Before “Say Yes to the Dress” brought Kleinfeld Bridal to the attention of more than one point five million households across America every week, a Holocaust survivor named Hedda Kleinfeld revolutionized the bridal industry.

(JTA) — Before “Say Yes to the Dress” brought Kleinfeld Bridal to the attention of more than one point five million households across America every week, a Holocaust survivor named

Before “Say Yes to the Dress” brought Kleinfeld Bridal to the attention of households across America every week, a Holocaust survivor named Hedda Kleinfeld revolutionized the bridal industry.

Hedda Kleinfeld revolutionized the bridal industry, “Say Yes to the Dress” brought her to the attention of more than 1.5 million households

A granddaughter says her grandmother never saw an episode of the show that brought her namesake store into millions of homes.

Holocaust survivor born in Vienna; family fled to Havana; foresight of 'Miss Hedda' to shift family business from fur to weddings transformed it into multi-million dollar entity

With her husband, Jack, she expanded I. Kleinfeld & Son into a bridal superstore that became a New York City institution.

Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter was known as Kleinfeld’s, a bridal superstore that for decades drew women from all over the world to the unlikely locale of Bay Ridge, a neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Hedda co-founded the bridal empire Kleinfeld in 1941, which went on to become one of the biggest wedding dress companies on the planet - and it now helps thousands of women each year.

Her American-made business was fueled by certitude in American and European designers.