Bernie sanders first wife

Bernard (Bernie) Sanders was born September 8, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York, to Eli and Dorothy Sanders. His father, Eli, was born in Slopnice, Poland, and immigrated to the United States in 1921 at age 17.

“I had the role model of a father who had unbelievable courage in journeying across an ocean, with no money in his pocket and not knowing a word of English…He came to escape the crushing poverty in his community and…widespread anti-Semitism.

Needless to say, I would not be with you today if he had not made that trip from Poland because virtually his entire family there was wiped out by the Nazis.” (Bernie Sanders)^[1]

Dorothy Glassberg Sanders was born in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents from Radzyn, Poland, and Bialystock, Russia.

Eli worked hard as a paint salesman traveling through the city’s five boroughs to support Dorothy, Bernie, and his older brother, Larry.

The family lived in a three-and-a-half-room rent-controlled apartment on East 2