Complex sentence: Born Sanford Meisner in Brooklyn, he was the oldest of four children of Hermann Meisner, a furrier, and Bertha Knoepfler, Jewish immigrants who came to the United States from Hungary.
Split into simpler sentences: Born Sanford Meisner in Brooklyn, he was the oldest of four children. Sanford, Jacob, Ruth, and Robert were the children of Hermann Meisner, a furrier, and Bertha Knoepfler, Jewish immigrants who came to the United States from Hungary.