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What About The Soviets...

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A son who learned nothing from treason's costs

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An Execution in the Family: One Son's Journey
Robert Meeropol
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Robert Meeropol was six years old when his parents Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed for conspiracy to commit espionage in 1953. Though this was certainly a significant event in his life, it was not the single defining moment as one might assume. It is also not the central theme of his memoir, though it does play a strong supporting role. In fact, Meeropol has only vague memories of his parents. What he does remember are years spent in orphanages and foster homes before he and his brother were adopted by Abel and Anne Meeropol. While the event did cause some childhood trauma, he reflects that "I can't help feeling that I gained as much as I lost during those years." An Execution in the Family is hardly the work of a bitter man fuming at the establishment for the loss of his parents. Rather, it is the story of a thoughtful person and his struggle to find his purpose in the world. Reared on left-wing politics and social activism, he knew he wanted to help others, but he was unsure of the route to take, and his writes of his confusion and troubles with engaging frankness.

Part of his restlessness stemmed from his inability to come to terms with his past. Up into his early twenties, he never revealed who his biological parents were, even to his closest friends. Ultimately, however, events forced him to acknowledge his lineage and confront the facts, plunging him into his own in-depth investigation of the Rosenbergs' case. Eventually he was able to prove publicly that his parents' trial had been unfair and that critical testimony against them had been tainted. He also had to acknowledge that his parents' names would never be completely cleared. The process proved rewarding in many ways, notably because it served to reveal a greater purpose for him: In 1990 Meeropol started the Rosenberg Fund for Children to support children of political prisoners, beginning his life as an activist and offering him an opportunity to honor both his biological and adoptive parents in the process. "My parents' resistance inspired a movement. That inspiration survived their execution," he writes. With this memoir, Meeropol hopes in turn to inspire others. --Shawn Carkonen

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An Execution in the Family details Robert Meeropol's political odyssey from Rosenberg son to prominent political activist in his own right, and chronicles a very personal story of self-discovery. It is the story of how he tried to balance a strong desire to live a normal life and raise a family, with a growing need to create something useful out of his nightmare childhood. It is also a poignant account of how, at age forty-three, he finally found a way to honor his parents and also be true to himself.

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What About The Soviets..........2007-10-16

There is no doubt that this book is both a heart-wrenching and triumph for Robert Meeropol. What a terrible tragedy he suffered through as a young child as result of the acts of his completely irresponsible parents Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. It is a well-know fact via the Venona cables that Joe McCarthy was 100% percent right about Soviet inflitration into the U.S. Government. This is no longer up for debate. Furthermore there is no longer any debate that the Soviet Union under Stalin - the very dictator and system that the Rosenbergs and their allied communist friends here in the US supported so blindly, was a terror-filled, murdering, raping, pillaging government. Seventy million people perished in the Soviet Union under Stalin due to starvation, poverty, political views and many ended in the gulags of Russia. I wonder if Robert and his brother have ever given any thought to the families and relatives of the people who Stalin and The Soviet Union murdered. Their parents Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Company have the blood of these people on their hands too as they were dedicated enough to subvert their own country in support of the murderous Joseph Stalin and the government of the Soviet Union. Lucky for both Robert and Michael Rosenberg that they were citizens of the Very country that their parents opted to destroy and were protected and nutured and raised in this Great Country. If they had been in the Soviet Union they would have been thrown into the gulag - children or not. If I was either of them I would hit my knees every night and thank God that my parents and their associates did not destroy this country.

A book I have given many times as gifts.......2006-05-12

Alas! I see the hostile reviews to this book, and I think, "Who are you to tell this man what he should believe and what his life should be?" I find this to be a great American story of growth and acceptance. It's honest, and Meeropol has earned the right to choose his life and his values of decency and holding authority accountable. If you want to reinforce your own conservative agenda, find something else to read. There's plenty out there. If, however, you're interested in a real look at the cold war and Viet Nam era as they were felt by real people of conscience in America, enjoy this read.

A good book in its own right.......2005-11-26

I read this book because I have known of Robert and his brother Michael since the 1970s and I have always admired his parents and what they did. However, the book had an interest in its own, not just as the saga of a child of Ethel and Julius, but a saga of people of our generation (Robby is 15 days older than I am) especially as a number of the names of his peers and associates are faces and names I knew or still know.

Many people live with a secret, that dad or mom is an alcoholic or a drug addict, that physical or even sexual abuse is going on in the house, that the bills are not being paid, that they are adopted, but Robby grew up with the secret of his identity. It was not all the hatred the witch hunt set up for his parents, but also the helpless feeling he recounts he felt when strangers who "knew who he was" would acost him on the streets with hugs and kisses and dotting.

I think a lot more people will identify with this portion of his life, and how this difficulty gave him emotional problems and was even a block to his first attempts at a relationship with the woman who became his life.

The book also gives a picture of the life and struggle of college student radicals at one of the centers of the radicalization at Ann Arbor, but also about Robby's continued commitment which reached a point of emotional and physical crisis when he became a corporate lawyer. He jsut could not do that, he needed to confront "them," the system that had murdered his parents and set up the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a foundation that provides support and life enrichment for children of political prisoners and other victims of the repressive arms of American capitalism.

The point of interest for me is how he deals with recent allegations from the "Verona" files released by the government and various claims made by a former KGB agent that Julius Rosenberg had given technical information about aeronautic and electronic devices to the USSR, though not the "secrets of the
A-Bomb." To me his father was a heroic figure, whose work helped strengthen the USSR which, with all the criminal deficiencies of its stalinized leadership, was the only thing that stopped the USA from launching the nuclear war it planned it the late 1940s.

Even if one takes this evidence with full coin, the evidence is that Ethel never did anything. While she was dedicated to the cause, at the time she was in poor health, dealing with her infant Micahel who was a difficult child, and such a devoted mother that she took university courses in child pyschology and other issues to learn to give her son the best care.

This information shows that Julius Rosenberg had nothing to do with the atomic bomb (both the Verona tapes and the KGB officer indicate the one time the bomb was discussed with David Greenglass, his brother-in-law, Julius was waiting outside the car because he knew nothing about this.)

Moreover, Greenglass's information that was touted as "the secret of the atomic bomb" was useless. He was a machinist who made parts, and had no knowledge of the actual workings of the bomb.

The Rosenbergs were framed because they refused to knucle under to the lies and the hysteria that the US government was orchestrating under Truman and then under Eisenhower. The real system of it was to get people to break under the pressure and fear, to lie about what they did, to implicate others, and to spread the hysteria.

It had nothing to do with gathering information, for the FBI had extensive real knowledge of what was going on that would have refuted some of the lies and slanders that emerged under the witch hunt, a good example of this being the Hollywood Ten prosecution that was supposed to be about finding out who was in the Community party in the Hollywood film industry. Of course at the time, the person who maintained CP membership records for Southern California was an FBI agent and no such inquiry was needed. It had to do with breaking people down.

Julius and Ethel held strong because as their letters to the world and their children and their last words said, they believed in fighting for a better future than the world they lived in.

Their son follows this fight.

One thing I felt deficient in this book, and perhaps this is just my own personal interst as I met both men in the 1970s, is that in the last section of the book what became of his brother Michael disappears from the narrative.

A son who learned nothing from treason's costs.......2005-03-06

I am certain that if my parents were executed for being traitors to their country, that I would feel some degree of guilt, even if by association, but would want to know the truth. This book is not that journey; it is a complete work of fiction. The Meeropol boys (the name given to them with their adoption by leftist activists) Robert and Michael, plus others in the family such as their offspring Ivy and Rachel, have all become prominent leftists, continuing their attacks on capitalism and the United States. The problem that Robert has in writing this book is that even the Soviet Union has seen the light and disappeared, but in so doing, it opened up its vaults and revealed their ugly contents. Those contents were also verified by the release of the Venona Project papers a few years ago, which proved beyond any reasonable doubt that the Rosenbergs were traitors to the United States. I would feel sorry for the Meeropols, except that they have decided to continue in the path of their parents, supporting extremist left-wing organizations, attacking their country at every turn, and otherwise proving that apples, especially bad ones, don't fall very far from the tree. It is unfortunate that they have decided to live a life of denial instead of reflection on what motivated their parents to support this nation's enemies. Perhaps they would have taken different journeys themselves. It is ironic that the Meeropol clan now writes books, engages in leftist workshops, and work for organizations that undermine the liberties that they take for granted, just like their parents did. One of the saddest sections deals with Meeropol's attacks on the prosecutors of his parents' crimes, in effect blaming them for his parents preference to go to the chair, leaving him an orphan, rather than reveal the names of their fellow collaborators. Their love for communism obviously greater than their love for their sons.

The errors and omissions in this book are so numerous and outrageous that it would take a book twice the length of this one to detail them all. Suffice it to say that if you are looking for anything that resembles the truth regarding what despicable scum the Rosenberg traitors really were, you won't find it in here. But thankfully there are several books which are available now to expose this piece of fiction for what it is.

gives insight to the mind of a liberal but SAD, SAD, SAD..........2004-06-27

This book is so much more than just a recounting of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. It is their son Robert's life journey which is directly a result of his parent's execution. Robert mentions that moral arguments are problematic because they are not necessarily rational. He is right, but that being said, all of his arguments against the "establishment" being wrong have no more credibility than his own opinion of being right. Robert's loyalty to the left and his concern with fighting the "them," who executed his parents almost 50 years ago, has blinded him. We see how the movement is like leaf that just blows in the wind according to the political current. He is so concerned with remaining on the "left," his parent's party, that his own ideologies evolve with the movement. He moves from communism to SDS, to progressive, etc. Robert has no absolute standard for right and wrong. Who can blame him? In a Godless world, there is no absolute standard.

I can't even begin to articulate how this story saddened me though. It saddens me to admit that I had never heard of the Rosenbergs, although I went to an Ivy League University and was familiar with the McCarthy era. I learned about the Rosenbergs from an HBO documentary by Michael's daughter. I also hate to admit that most of my peers have never heard of the Rosenbergs. I was so upset to learn about of all of the Jews who were involved in the execution of Ethel and Julius. Although Robert's recount is very pragmatic, there is such an underlying pain and sadness between the words. What saddened me most is the torn Rosenberg/Greenglass family. As a Jew myself, I can honestly say, their pain is my pain. Family not taking them in; it is not Jewish! Where were those Jewish values and ethics? Robert's story confirms that those ethics and values, which are the religious platform of those founding fathers, which he staunchly tries to uphold, were absent. Ethel and Julius were typical secular Jews whose "ism" was communism not Judaism; as were my grandparents in NYC. The secularism of his parents explains their loyalty to communism which explains his currant loyalty to "Leftism."

Robert is now years older than his parents and with age comes wisdom. Robert briefly mentions a "spiritual or even religious experience;" his foolishness was not exploring that! What Robert fails to see is what makes him like his parents is NOT his vehement loyalty to the left but his pursuit in making the world a better place.

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