![]() Bernie attended public school 197, where he played basketball. The Sanders family lost many relatives who had not come to the United States during the Holocaust. ![]() Bernie’s father, Elias Ben Yehuda Sanders was born in the Austro-Hungarian empire (now a part of Poland) Elias Sanders immigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. ![]() His mother, Borothy Glassberg Sanders, was the daughter of Jewish immigrants from Poland. One son: Levi Three stepchildren – Dave Driscoll, Carina Driscoll, Heather Driscoll Titusīernie Sanders was born in the New York borough of Brooklyn on September 8, 1941. Many college students and other young adults brandished a “Feel the Bern” bumper sticker on their vehicles, and the Democratic Party began to pay attention to the progressive policies which seemed to garner Sanders a large “young voter” voting bloc. Although Sanders has never made it past the Democratic primaries, his two campaigns have garnered a great deal of attention, particularly among young voters. He has run for president of the United States twice, in 2016 and again in 2020. Senator Sanders is a self-described Democratic Socialist. Bernie Sanders is an Independent Senator from the state of Vermont.
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