Robert Meeropol (born Robert Rosenberg in 1947) is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Meeropol was born in New York City. His father Julius was an electrical engineer and a member of the Communist Party. His mother Ethel (née Greenglass), a union organizer, was also active in the Communist Party. When Robert was six years old, his parents were convicted and executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage, particularly, of passing secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
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