28 Facts About Ethel Rosenberg

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union.

Decades many people including the Rosenbergs' sons maintained that Julius and Ethel were innocent of spying on their country and were victims of Cold War paranoia.

Julius Ethel Rosenberg was born on May 12,1918, in New York City to a family of Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire.

Ethel Rosenberg's parents worked in the shops of the Lower East Side as Julius attended Seward Park High School.

Ethel Rosenberg Greenglass was born on September 28,1915, to a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City.

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Ethel Rosenberg originally was an aspiring actress and singer, but eventually took a secretarial job at a shipping company.

Ethel Rosenberg became involved in labor disputes and joined the Young Communist League, where she met Julius in 1936.

Julius Ethel Rosenberg joined the Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, in 1940, where he worked as an engineer-inspector until 1945.

Ethel Rosenberg was discharged when the US Army discovered his previous membership in the Communist Party.

Ethel Rosenberg provided thousands of classified reports from Emerson Radio, including a complete proximity fuse.

Under Feklisov's supervision, Ethel Rosenberg recruited sympathetic individuals into NKVD service, including Joel Barr, Alfred Sarant, William Perl, and Morton Sobell, an engineer.

In February 1944, Ethel Rosenberg succeeded in recruiting a second source of Manhattan Project information, engineer Russell McNutt, who worked on designs for the plants at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Ethel Rosenberg claimed that his sister Ethel's husband Julius Rosenberg had convinced David's wife Ruth to recruit him while visiting him in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1944.

Ethel Rosenberg said Julius had passed secrets and thus linked him to the Soviet contact agent Anatoli Yakovlev.

On July 17,1950, Julius Ethel Rosenberg was arrested on suspicion of espionage based on David Greenglass's confession.

Ethel Rosenberg claimed that he was kidnapped by members of the Mexican secret police and driven to the US border, where he was arrested by US forces.

Ethel Rosenberg then sat down at the typewriter which she placed on a bridge table in the living room and proceeded to type the information that David had given to Julius.

Ethel Rosenberg's attorney asked the US commissioner to parole her in his custody over the weekend, so that she could make arrangements for her two young children.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put under pressure to incriminate others involved in the spy ring.

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were buried at Wellwood Cemetery, a Jewish cemetery in Pinelawn, New York.

Ethel Rosenberg said the Soviets had developed their own bomb by trial and error.

Notes allegedly typed by Ethel Rosenberg apparently contained little that was directly used in the Soviet atomic bomb project.

Ethel Rosenberg said they had urged the death sentence for Ethel in an effort to extract a full confession from Julius.

Ethel Rosenberg reportedly said, "She called our bluff", as she made no effort to push her husband to any action.

Ethel Rosenberg admitted that he had given documents to the Soviet contact, but said these had to do with defensive radar and weaponry.

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Ethel Rosenberg said that he thought the hand-drawn diagrams and other atomic-bomb details that were acquired by David Greenglass and passed to Julius were of "little value" to the Soviet Union, and were used only to corroborate what they had already learned from the other atomic spies.

Ethel Rosenberg said that he believed Ethel Rosenberg was aware of her husband's deeds, but took no part in them.

In 2021 Ethel Rosenberg's sons restarted the campaign to pardon Ethel Rosenberg, as they were more optimistic that President Biden will consider this favorably.