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Michael Meeropol (born Michael Rosenberg on March 10, 1943) is an American retired professor of economics. He is the older son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted communist spies. Born in New York City as Michael Rosenberg, Meeropol spent his early childhood living in New York and attending local school there.
Jun 18, 2020 · As they grew up, Michael Meeropol became an economics professor, and Robert Meeropol became a lawyer. The two changed their stance regarding their father’s innocence after Morton Sobell’s confession in 2008, which stated that Julius Rosenberg played his part in the spy network.
Jun 19, 2018 · Meeropol and his wife, who did not have children, met the Rosenberg boys at a party at the home of W.E.B. Du Bois and took them in a week later. Eventually, they adopted them.
Sep 17, 2008 · Michael, left, and Robert Meeropol rehearsing in 2003 for a commemoration of the execution in 1953 of their parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Sep 5, 2012 · He and his older brother, Michael, were raised by Abel and his wife, Anne Meeropol, after the boys' parents — Ethel and Julius Rosenberg — were executed for espionage in 1953.
- Elizabeth Blair
Jun 21, 2023 · Seventy years after the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, their sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol, have renewed their efforts to clear their mother’s name. Just ten and six years old when their parents were executed for federal charges of conspiracy to commit espionage, both men grew up believing in their parents’ innocence.
Jun 18, 2020 · Decades after his death, his involvement in the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg has been brought to notice by the couple’s children, Michael, and Robert Meeropol. READ MORE
