Sanders' ancestral town in Poland kvells over his Iowa performance
- 8 years ago
All eyes in the sleepy Polish town of Slopnice were fixed on the US presidential race Tuesday as Bernie Sanders, whose father was born there, was in a virtual tie with frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the the Democratic caucus in Iowa.
“There’s quite a bit of excitement in the air here we’re proud of Senator Sanders and we wish our ‘homeboy’ even greater success!”
mayor Adam Soltys told AFP.
Soltys met Sanders and his brother in 2013 when they visited the picturesque town of 6,500 nestled in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains.
They were retracing the footsteps of their father Eli, before he emigrated to the United States in 1921 at the age of 17.
“He even speaks a few words of Polish,” Soltys said, describing Sanders as “very sympathetic, warm-hearted and friendly.”
Soltys said that members of the Sanders family, who were Jewish shopkeepers, died in the Holocaust.
“There’s quite a bit of excitement in the air here we’re proud of Senator Sanders and we wish our ‘homeboy’ even greater success!”
mayor Adam Soltys told AFP.
Soltys met Sanders and his brother in 2013 when they visited the picturesque town of 6,500 nestled in the foothills of the Carpathian mountains.
They were retracing the footsteps of their father Eli, before he emigrated to the United States in 1921 at the age of 17.
“He even speaks a few words of Polish,” Soltys said, describing Sanders as “very sympathetic, warm-hearted and friendly.”
Soltys said that members of the Sanders family, who were Jewish shopkeepers, died in the Holocaust.