Bernie Sanders Learns the Depth of His Father’s Patriotism | Finding Your Roots | Ancestry®
Vložit
- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- “That is unbelievable!” - While examining his family history with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders learns about the challenges his father faced as a young Jewish immigrant in America.
Build Your Family Tree: www.ancestry.com/s113119/t4508...
Subscribe: bit.ly/AncestrySubscribe
Or dig deeper into your DNA:
www.ancestry.com/s117645/t4595...
More Finding Your Roots: www.ancestry.com/s113057/t4505...
About Ancestry:
Bringing together science and self-discovery, Ancestry helps everyone, everywhere discover the story of what led to them. Our sophisticated engineering and technology harnesses family history and consumer genomics, combining billions of rich historical records and millions of family trees to over 10 million and counting to provide people with deeply meaningful insights about who they are and where they come from.
We’ve pioneered and defined this category, developing new innovations and technologies that have reinvented how people make family history discoveries. And these discoveries can give everyone a greater sense of identity, relatedness, and their place in the world.
Connect with Ancestry:
Visit Ancestry’s Official Site: www.ancestry.com/
Like Ancestry on Facebook: bit.ly/AncestryFB
Follow Ancestry on Twitter: bit.ly/AncestryTwitter
Follow Ancestry on Instagram: bit.ly/AncestryIG
Bernie Sanders Reacts to Family History in Finding Your Roots | Ancestry
/ ancestrycom
00:00 Introduction
0:37 Bernie Sanders learns about his father’s childhood
2:22 Bernie Sanders’s war-torn family history
3:27 Bernie Sanders’s father arrives to the US - Věda a technologie
Ask your elders about the story of your family before it's too late.
Yes! We realized how many questions we had, and conversations we hadn't had, after Dad passed. Luckily, we were able to have some of those talks with mom.
Sometimes they won't tell you. I found out more about my Mum's early life when she had Dementia. I was in my 40s before I knew she had been sent at 14 to London to be a maid.
@@jeffreym68 When I was young I was too busy and not interested. When that changed both my parents were gone. Took me 20 years to find out most of what I wanted to know. Thanks to the internet and Ancestry.
@@quiltygal6981 I wonder now, did my father not know, or did he just not talk about it.
I saw that episode of Finding Your Roots. At the end, Bernie finds out he's a distant cousin of Larry David! 🤗 He got a major kick out of that.. 😄
Thank you. This video did start with a promise it never delivered.
Who is Larry related to?
@@LordRothschild666 Bernie
Just watched this week's episode and both had DNA matches. Jane Lynch is a cousin to Mia Farrow and Jim Gaffigan is a cousin to Derek Jeter.
@@hectorsmommy1717 🤣
Fun fact: Bernie Sanders can run in Polish presidential elections. In Poland to easily get Polish citizenship one of your parents also needs to have Polish citizenship, and since his father was a Polish Jew this is just a technicality. All he'd need is 100,000 signatures.
woah
As the daughter of an immigrant I never heard my dad talk about where he came from, we knew very little of him. Now I realized that talking about a place you can never go back to, hurts more than forgetting it 😞
😢
I see Bernie, I CLICK.
I love 💗 him!!!
@@dollywood4326 well, your insane so.......
Love me some Bernie
Me too...
@@rustyshakelford1279 *you're
I found my biological brothers on Ancestry, that made my whole year twice!
Congratulations, I Hope y'all develop a Great Relationship for the rest of your days💙
That's wonderful! We're so happy to hear this - we hope you're able to make lots of wonderful memories with them. 🌳❤️
so far it’s like we were strangers who knew each other forever, it’s been wonderful
That's so amazing to hear! Thank you for sharing this wonderful story with us. Wishing you and your brothers all the best as you build your relationship ❤️🍀
Hey hey! It's been a year! How's it going?
Imagine how proud his dad would be to see how his son turned out. He came here as an immigrant, grew to love this country and its people and his son spends his life serving this country and advocating for its people. Bernie has more than repaid this country for giving his dad safe harbor. A son to be proud of to be sure.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Kitti, an inspirational story for sure!
Bernie said his dad wasn't a flag-waving type, but "he loved this country in a very, very deep way." I think it's time for the chronic flag-wavers, and not much else, to put down those flags and put their focus on what the flag represents. They seem to have "forgotten".
Thank you, I wholly agree
@@tenzinthinley8764 Me, too.
Yes. Patriotism is love of one’s country, not shallow pride. We are what makes this country great or terrible. It’s in in the way we treat each other.
Yes! As a first generation immigrant who came here in escape of tyranny, we understand what this country is about at a different level.
I know I'm a year late responding to this comment, but I see Bernie the same way Bernie remembers his father. Bernie has been the only candidate in my lifetime that has made me truly feel as though they care deeply for the health and wellness of the people of this country. That's true patriotism.
Bernie's story is every immigrants story and the common thread we all share, the search for a better life.
It is not, his particular story is shared only by other Jews.
Pretty sure he got in legally.
America represented a place called freedom.
@@ranonampangom2185 Jews aren't the only people who've endured ethnic and religious persecution, get over yourselves.
At the cost of other's lives.
I bet Bernie's dad would be proud of his son.
oh most definitely! I wish his father could have seen the revolution he has started and the profound impact hes on had on so many Americans.
I remember this episode. I have never seen Bernie laugh so hard before when he found out who he was related to.
Who is it?
@@TheObimara Larry David
That was the best!!!
Wherrs the rest of the video where he finds out
I seen him laugh this if not harder. Not only once but twice he scammed people into thinking he was running for president only to get bought off by the DNC.
Elias raised a fine son who cares for all of us. No matter what nationality you are. I have so much respect for Bernie.❤
Ditto Rebecca. Ditto!
Glad Elias got out when he did. Things got much worse for Jewish people there in the next couple decades.
Things got bad for everyone, not just jews.
@@kyriljordanov2086 True, but especially Jewish folk.
@@ScottJB Also the Gypsys, the Jehovah Witnesses, the feeble minded, and other unwanted people! It wasn't just the Jewish!
Sadly, other members of his family weren’t so lucky.
Some comments here reek of replying All Lives Matter to Black Lives Matter
Bernie is a deeply empathetic person. It explains why he takes certain unpopular stances... sorta reminds me of Jimmy Carter in that sense
His policies are actually pretty popular. We just live in a country where media convinces you to support things against your interest.
I teach US history and was searching for a video to explain the push factors for migration to America between 1890 and 1924. Religious persecution, poverty, and political unrest. This works perfectly. The fact that it’s Bernie is also a plus!
I have never cared about meeting any renowned person , but Bernie is the exception. The man cannot be bought and his word can be taken at face value. That's extremely admirable to me. I would love a conversation with him.
You're kidding, of course!
No, you wouldn't.
It just hit me that this is the first time I've seen Bernie laugh like that, and I'm all here for it. He's such a delightful person!
Mr. Gates is the most elegant gentleman I have ever seen or heard. He is this show!
Shame on them (esp media) who smear, slander, accuse him a-z and completely erase his family backgroung and struggle.
This is a great reminder to know our roots. I often try to place myself in my mother's shoes back in 1951 when they bombed her Korean village. She lost her family in that war and lost more when she came to America. She'll never be the same person and still can't talk on it, but I like to research that war so that I don't forget the trauma that built this woman of steel.
One day, maybe she'll be healed enough to talk about it and release it from herself.
My heart ached when I put myself in his father's shoes immigrating ALONE at only 16 y.o!💔 So 😢
No wonder he carries so much care for the helpless. Runs in his blood, the struggle.
Wow his father grew up in the region of Galicia during the 1900s. That is truly an unreal lifetime to have experienced.
There is SO much similarities between my story and his story as a Kurd on what’s going on back in Kurdistan, makes me love him more🥺❤️
Kurds participated actively in the Armenian genocide. As a great grandson of an arminian survivor who fled DiarBakr as a lonely teenager to Lebanon I say : what goes around comes back around.
I see Bernie Sanders, I click...... Even though I've already seen this episode.
Same 💚 Bernie
Same!
So... why does he burst out laughing at the beginning? You tease us with that to keep watching, and then you don't deliver?
it said he was a distant cousin of larry david.
The hearts of the children will turn to their fathers.
Before he became Elias Sanders, he was Elye (Eliyahu) Gitman, the son of Yehuda, born in Stopnica, Galicia (by then, under the hegemony of the Imperial Russia). On May 26, 1921, he made his way to Antwerp, Belgium and boarded the SS Lapland, which brought him to New York City on June 5, 1921. There he joined his maternal uncle, Abraham Louis Horn, in Brooklyn. How he got Sanders from Gitman is another story.
Bernie is probably the only person that I would vouch for his goodness without meeting him. Normally I feel so cringy to see someone support anyone the way that I support Bernie, it's not cringy only when it's someone real and Bernie is that. He's had his politics even when they were not popular at the time, he had them because they were his truth. He's a true inspiration. Love and respect from Istanbul.
🙌🏾🙌🏾
He is a mensch
This episode put me in tears because it makes you think about your family. My father as an Italian came to this country for a better life not only for himself also for the next generations.
Bernie! Learning about his ancestral history makes me appreciate him all the more 🙌💛🤗
I’m so glad Bernies dad made it here to America. Without that we would have Bernie! One of the few people in government that actually cares about the people!
This is exactly why we should never turn immigrants away 👍
This is interesting as my paternal grandmother's mother also came from Galicia to NYC in the early 1900s and died not long after in the Flu Pandemic of 1918 on the Lower East Side. She had just given birth to my late grandmother in a tenement a few days earlier. As she and her husband worked in sweatshops in the garment district like many Jewish immigrants, they had very little money and she was buried in a cemetery for indigent Jews on Staten Island where her headstone still stands. My grandmother was adopted by a Jewish couple from Chicago after a year in some sort of orphanage. It was extremely difficult to get her history as NY is a closed adoption state but we were able to do it when she was in her 90s due to a new law for those born before 1920. Thank you for sharing Bernie's ancestry as it mimics part of mine that no one heard about. I only knew his father was from Poland but seeing that Galicia turned into part of Poland and Ukraine, this makes sense.
I read Henry Louis Gates Jr’s _Colored People_ in 1995 for my pre-freshman week in college. Amazing book, really great discussions resulted from it. Great writing, and I’m glad he has expanded the broader discussion in Finding
Your Roots. Nicely done.
God bless Bernie.
Bernie has one of the most recognizable voice I've ever heard. Very unique! I love this channel!
And he became the father of one of the greatest Americans who has ever lived. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for sharing this excellent and heart touching family history of Bernie Sanders with us Ancestry. This is one of the most viewed videos on your CZcams channel for a reason (and after only 1 month since being released): people love Bernie. He's an American icon, will go down in history as one of the great heroes of regular folks, and we really missed out by not having him as our President.
I love you Bernie. Thank you for the compassion you have for the United States people.
We can certainly gain great insights and invaluable information from our loved ones personal family history knowledge. It can be so beneficial (even if detail is sparse) to your research and can really help put you on the right trail when seeking documentation and other evidence. We wish you all the best in your own project! 🌳
Thank you pbs, really a great American institution! And greetings from Denmark.
These are two of my favorite "Elders". Brains AND heart. When they talk,I shut up and listen.
Bernie’s a wise & caring man, Especially Appreciate his sincerity. He has so much passion for mankind, of all races.
God bless you Bernie Sanders 🙏❤️✝️
Thank you Dr. Gates, for this project. So many people, especially Black Americans, have little access to their ancestry. I especially appreciated the Pharrell Williams video. We all need to appreciate our heritage as individuals and as Americans.
His laugh makes me feel immense happiness
We're glad you enjoyed it, Merylin! Have a great day!
Want more celebrity content? Check out the new season of Who Do You Think You Are? Sundays at 7/6c on NBC or stream on Peacock. visitancestry.com/3Pfkvq5
I can't wait for my whole world will be changed forever especially knowing who's my biological father is. Thank you Ancestry for everything. Looking forward to one of my new chapters comes to life.
We wish you and your new found family the very best for the future, Jojo! ❤️
Bernie Sanders is a great man and a champion of the poor and downtrodden. God bless his soul. Love you Bernie 💕
We are such a beautiful diaspora with such a sad history. 💙
I love Bernie too.
He's so genuine.
Self serving.
I was moved to tears.
yeah it moving but moving to the point of tears no -.-
Me too. But then again, for the past couple weeks it seems like everything is moving me to tears.
I have seen this and am in awe of him even more and glad for the sweet twist at the end.
No wonder how passionate Senator Sanders is.
Passionate??
This story should make you appreciate Bernie and what he has done even more.
I know I am very fortunate…. I know so much about my family…and for generations, they were all very good about journaling. Clear back to the 1600’s(witch trials in salem Massachusetts) I have all the journals and because some recorded births and death in rural areas back in the 1700’s, I donated the journals and in exchange, they gave me “copies”…. So I feel good that they will be preserved in a museum.
Omg im so glad i found this. His laugh is so wholesome 💕💕💕💕
I love Finding Your Roots so much! And Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the icing on the cake! 💗
Hi Robin, thanks for watching! We hope this show inspires you to dive deeper into your family history.
Hi and thanks for dropping by! We're sorry to hear that recent changes to your AncestryDNA ethnicity estimate have caused you some confusion. We're happy to explain why your results update every now and again.
Don’t worry - your DNA doesn't change! What changes is the amount of data we have available and advancements in the science we use to calculate your estimate. We’re continually adding additional samples to the reference panel we use to determine your ethnicity estimate and we’ve also incorporated new insights in DNA science into the algorithm we use to analyze your sample. Together, our larger reference panel and latest algorithm let us provide results that are even more precise. DNA science is always evolving, and so are we. DNA ethnicity estimates are updated from time to time based on advances in DNA science and an increasing number of samples in our reference panel. With each update, we continue to add new regions and communities, in an effort to make your results even more precise.
As for the fact that some regions are broader than other, it's important to bear in mind that AncestryDNA ethnicity estimates are based on available data. Ancestry uses established baseline ethnicities taken from living people with verified roots in a particular area. The 40,017 people whose DNA is used is called our reference panel. We then take your sample and compare it with each of these reference panels, repeat 40 times and provide you with the mean average in the form of your ethnicity estimate. Naturally our members desire the maximum level of precision possible so that they can reveal the clearest picture of their origins science allows. However if we do not have enough data on a particular region it is more difficult to offer such precision. However more and more people are taking our test everyday and so we do hope that you will see more specific geographies in your DNA estimate over time. These changes should consist in breaking down broad regions into more specific regions.
If you ever have any questions about a particular change, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.
How impactful and really shows how Bernie was raised to be the man that he has become. What a feat and truly is the American Dream.
Bernie Sanders is such a wonderful person who shows he cares for his country and people!
I was able to go back at least 5 generation back. Thanks to my Mom that is still alive to answer questions and to talk about her family. Please to the younger generation ask questions to your parents/grandparents
Aunts/Uncle relatives Get all the knowledge you can get you never know when you are going to need it and how important it is!
Stay safe!
I love how the comments are filled with love for Bernie. ❤️
This program it’s my favorite 🤩 People always underestimate their ancestors
to me it’s fascinating every story. We proud of who you are and were you coming!
Congratulations PBS!
Henry is a national treasure, and so is Bernie.
The host has a soothing voice, imagine him making meditation album omg that would be fantastic.
Bernie is as resilient as his father. God bless him 😇 we must all pray for govt officials like him who truly understands & cares for the American nation.
I found my biological paternal grandparents on Ancestry. They have both passed away unfortunately, but I have found many new family members in the process. Thank you ancestry ❤
We're so glad to hear you were able to connect with newfound family members, Emily! Wishing all of you all the best as you get to know one another. ❤️
And this proud American's son became a very famous and much beloved Senator who also loves this country!
The world loves you Bernie....and so do I!!
Bernie is a really cool guy
Henry Louis Gates Jr. I truly love you! Thank you for never letting us forget where we came from. It's Priceless! Bless you! I'm from to Occaneechi band of the Saponi Nation, black and white! I am a member of Ancestry and have found family back to 1824, but came to a road block with names being spelled wrong and such. HELP! I'm alone and I need to know where I came from. If you could help it would mean the world to me.
It is said that my brother in law's grandfather ( from Poland) stole the family cow and sold it to come to America. My grandparents came in the 1920's from England.
My great uncle immigrated from Budapest Hungary @16 to the US around the same time he never spoke about the painful past
My grandmother & grandfather born in the 1890s, came to the US from Eastern Europe in the 1920s. When the depression hit in the 1930s, they said this time was no where near as bad as where they came from. Also naturalized they were proud to be citizens of America. No one gave them anything, started with the meager money they had built a business. That was the American Dream.
Such a genuine reaction. ❤❤❤❤
Grand parents and parents should always share their history with the new generations. That will prevent falling into discriminatory and self entitlement attitudes, and most especially lead us to appreciate our nation by truly uplifting good virtues and values.
I’m not American, but I love Bernie xx
This man has taught me so much in my life. Its really a shame he is not appreciated in his own country. Its almost emotional when you study how this man almost gave away his entire life for his message.
We Love you Bernie! You are a National Hero for us ALL!
Oh my God I just found out I'm Jewish! Thank you!
Bernie is the greatest politician of my lifetime. A very inspirational man
All socialists stick together
dudes a hardcore commie no he's not the greatest politician
@@jordanbrooks9448 ...try a dictionary
@@diedredbollinger Really is that the best comeback you got? It’s not even relevant to the situation because I’m pretty sure I spelled everything right. 😂 And for you, perhaps, a brain? 🤔
@@jordanbrooks9448 Since you clearly have no idea what "commie" means, consult a dictionary. Education is key!
What a wonderful story of this great man, beloved by so many.
Love me some Bernie.
My Irish father did his electrian apprenticeship with a beautiful Jewish community 😀
I would love to actually meet Bernie. He is such a gentleman and genuinely an amazing soul. I wish he would’ve been our President.
Hi, Jayne. While we do not offer assistance with personal research we can help send you tips on how to best locate this information. We have a great article designed to help break down walls within your research, you can access that here: support.ancestry.com/s/article/Brick-Wall-Solutions
I love bernie Sanders 🤣❤
Me too🙂
@Engelbert Stephens not everyone is smart enough to like Bernie. ☭
Love love love this man!!!!!!🥰
Bernie is my favorite senator. (I moved from New York to Vermont a couple of years ago and am proud to be a Vermonter now.) So naturally I watched this video. Boy, what an awful life his dad had before he came to America! I'm so glad he married, had children and found some peace and joy. I know where Bernie got his strong moral character and good citizenship from. His dad, I'm sure, is proudly looking down from Heaven.
I love ❤️ Sen Sanders
We're thrilled to hear how much you have been able to discover, best of luck with all of your researching going forward! 🌳🙂
Bless Bernie for who he is and ALL he tries to do to help people and better their lives, all originated with his Dad's young life in Europe during their terrible times.
My great grandparents were German, however they emigrated from Austro-Hungary in the early 1900's. Though I know much about their lives after coming to America, I knew nothing about their lives before. Thanks for the glimpse into the possible troubles which brought them here.
Thank you for having such an amazing person in Senator Bernard Sanders.
My family too left Galicia during WW1
How interesting! Thank you for sharing with us, we hope you have a great day!
I don't agree with Bernie's politics, but l do respect him because he has always stuck to his beliefs. This is very heartwarming.
💟💟💟 And we love YOU, his son, Bernie ‼️😁🦋
My Jewish great grandfather came here one year layer in 1922.
Thanks for sharing!
That's amazing! We are happy to hear that you have found a new niece.
Man I love this man❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️