Bernie Sanders says being Jewish 'impacts him profoundly,' citing the Holocaust as one reason he’ll do everything he can “to end the kind of divisiveness that Trump is fomenting.” CNNTownHall
That has changed in the 2020 campaign, so when he was asked about it tonight, he spoke at some length about its impact on his life.
He then recalled his youth in Brooklyn, New York, in a Jewish community that became home to many European Holocaust survivors. "I remember, as a kid, looking at these big picture books of World War II and tears would roll down my cheeks when I saw what happened to the Jewish people. Six million people were killed by Hitler," Sanders said."I think at a very early age, before my political thoughts were developed, I was aware of the horrible things that human beings can do to other people in the name of racism or white nationalism, in this case Nazism.
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