15.06.2013 - 14:12 [ Robert Meeropol and Jenn Meeropol / Guardian ]

Out of the horror of the Rosenbergs´ executions, a force for good

We are Robert and Jenn Meeropol, son and granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. We are acutely aware of the political lessons to be drawn from the conviction and execution of the Rosenbergs at the height of the McCarthy period. The charge was conspiracy to commit espionage, but our family members were presented as traitors who gave the Soviet Union the secret of the atomic bomb.