Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Also mentioned in Wolf's City of Angels : It was morning. You heard on the radio that Ethel and Julius Rosenberg had been put to death in the electric chair that night in the USA. You cried. You stroked your small daughter's little head. I can still feel today, in my fingertips, how soft and fragile it was. I still remember that you thought: I will never forget this day. And I never did forget it. * Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 25, 1915 [1] – June 19, 1953) and Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war and executed on June 19, 1953. Their charges were related to the passing of information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union . This has been the only case in the history of the United States in which those accused of espionage were executed as a result. [2] In 1995, the U.S. government released a series of decoded Soviet cables, codenamed VENONA , which confirmed that Juliu...