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Providing safe havens and a sense of community for our beneficiaries is one of our primary missions at the Rosenberg Fund for Children. We also strive to remember the work of activist families from... Read More

Like many of you, my family watched the clock tick down to the end of Barack Obama's presidency, hoping that in his final hours he would act to exonerate my grandmother, Ethel Rosenberg. Though that... Read More

To the disappointment of many, thousands of individuals and organizations who supported the appeal to President Obama’s conscience in an effort to move him to exonerate Ethel Rosenberg, Obama did not... Read More

EASTHAMPTON - The sons of accused spy Ethel Rosenberg say they will not give up on their quest to have their mother exonerated, after President Obama left office without acting on their bid.

EASTHAMPTON — A nearly yearlong campaign by Robert and Michael Meeropol urging President Barack Obama to exonerate their mother, Ethel Rosenberg, ended with Obama’s presidency Friday.

Around the December holidays, the campaign to exonerate my grandmother, Ethel Rosenberg, got a huge boost:

December 30, 2016

The U.S. government used convicted Soviet spy Ethel Rosenberg as a “pawn” in the case against her atomic-secret-stealing husband despite a lack of evidence, a new inquiry into the execution of the... Read More

By Brooke Singman, Published December 21, 2016

December 13, 2016, Updated 12/14/2016 9:11 AM Among the last orders of business for outgoing presidents are the presidential pardons, exonerations and sentence commutations.

Rosenberg was executed with her husband in 1953, but mounting evidence indicates she was not a Soviet spy.

Dec 9, 2016 - "We speak this week to Michael Meeropol, whose parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed by the US government in 1953. We talk about his efforts to clear his mother's name and... Read More

December 6, 2016

Michael and Robert Meeropol, the sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, visited the White House on Dec 1, 2016, to deliver their petition asking President Obama to exonerate their mother, signed by over... Read More

Last Updated Dec 1, 2016 5:04 PM EST

BY ERIC TUCKER AND JOSH LEDERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS December 1, 2016 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The sons of convicted spy Ethel Rosenberg returned to the White House on Thursday, more than 50 years after... Read More

By Joe Heim December 1 at 5:25 PM 

By Allison Malloy, CNN Updated 4:14 PM ET, Thu December 1, 2016 Washington (CNN)The sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, two convicted communist spies who were sentenced to death during the Cold War... Read More