Michael Meeropol will present his lecture “David Greenglass: Perjurer AND Spy” and Robert Meeropol will discuss the ongoing campaign to exonerate their mother Ethel Rosenberg, before and after the election of Donald Trump. A reception with wine and cheese will follow the lecture. Michael and Robert Meeropol (born Michael and Robert Rosenberg) are the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Their father Julius, an electrical engineer, and mother Ethel (née Greenglass), a union organizer, were members of the Communist Party. The parents were arrested in 1950 and convicted and executed in In 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage and passing secrets to the Soviet Union. During the trial, Michael and his younger brother Robert lived first with their maternal grandmother, Tessie Greenglass, until November 1950 when she placed them in the Hebrew Children's Home in the Bronx until the end of the trial in June 1951. They then lived with their paternal grandmother, Sophie Rosenberg, in upper Manhattan until June 1952 at which time they were taken in by family friends, Ben and Sonia Bach, in Toms River, New Jersey, from June 1952 until the December after their parents' executions on June 19, 1953. The Toms River school superintendent "turned the boys away as non-residents." The brothers were eventually adopted by the lyricist, librettist, and musician Abel Meeropol and his wife Anne.
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