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Oct 15, 2019 · Bernie Sanders faced grief at a young age when his mom, Dorothy Sanders, died following a failed heart surgery. Some of her dreams were unrealized, and Sanders has said that his parents...
Feb 10, 2016 · The budding politician's mother ultimately fell ill at a young age, and she died of 46 from a failed second heart surgery after having rheumatic fever as child. After her death, Bernie left his ...
Jul 21, 2019 · A Polish immigrant who came to New York, Eli Sanders became a paint salesman and always had work. But to manage the household on his modest paychecks, Dorothy Sanders, a homemaker raised in the Bronx borough of New York, became an uncompromising scrimper and bargain hunter.
Feb 21, 2008 · Twenty-five years after her husband and son were shot to death inside a house on Shannon Street in Memphis, Dorothy Sanders is still re-living history.
Bernie's mother, Dorothy Sanders (née Glassberg) (1912–1960), was born in New York City. He is the younger brother of Larry Sanders. Sanders says he became interested in politics at an early age due to his family background. In the 1940s, many of his relatives in German-occupied Poland were murdered in the Holocaust.
Nov 3, 2015 · Dorothy Sanders was a stay-at-home mother who died young — she was 46 — the year after Bernie graduated from high school. "She played a huge — I may even cry at some point," Larry says. He ...
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.
