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The Meeropol brothers have endorsed the conclusions of Walter Schneir in his posthumously published book FINAL VERDICT that the entire Greenglass story of the secret of the Atom Bomb was concocted -- that Julius Rosenberg had been given a " pink slip " by the KGB in early 1945 and thus was out of the espionage loop when the famous cross-section drawing of an implosion-type Atom Bomb ( exhibit 8 at the Rosenberg Trial ) was passed to the Soviets.
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The brothers were eventually adopted by the lyricist, librettist, and musician Abel Meeropol and his wife Anne, whose first children had been stillborn.
Meeropol and published
Meeropol wrote the anti-lynching poem, " Strange Fruit ", which was first published in the Marxist publication The New Masses and was subsequently set to music.
Meeropol and was
Michael's daughter, Ivy Meeropol, directed a 2004 documentary about her grandparents, Heir to an Execution, which was featured at the Sundance Film Festival.
Michael and Robert Meeropol believe that " whatever atomic bomb information their father passed to the Russians was, at best, superfluous ; the case was riddled with prosecutorial and judicial misconduct ; their mother was convicted on flimsy evidence to place leverage on her husband ; and neither deserved the death penalty.
Abel Meeropol ( February 10, 1903-October 30, 1986 ) was an American writer, teacher and song-writer, best known under his pseudonym Lewis Allan and as the adoptive father of the young sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Billie Holiday claimed in Lady Sings the Blues, that she cowrote the music to the song with Meeropol and Sonny White, but in fact, Meeropol was the sole writer of both lyrics and melody to this haunting plea for civil rights.
Meeropol was the writer of countless poems and songs, including the Frank Sinatra and Josh White hit " The House I Live In " and the libretto of Robert Kurka's opera " The Good Soldier Schweik ".
Meeropol was enraged that in the film, the second verse was cut.
Meeropol protested against the deletion of the verse referring to " my neighbors white and black " when Sinatra's movie was first shown.
Orphaned at age 6, Robert was adopted by Anne and Abel Meeropol.
His daughter Ivy Meeropol used his comments in her documentary, Heir to an Execution, which was featured at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004 and shown extensively on HBO that June.
In 2008, after the Rosenberg co-defendant Morton Sobell admitted that he and Julius Rosenberg had engaged in espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union during World War II, Michael and Robert Meeropol agreed that their father was a Soviet spy.
Meeropol and Julius
* Heir to an Execution — An HBO documentary by Ivy Meeropol, the granddaughter of Ethel and Julius.
( Meeropol later adopted Michael and Robert, the two orphaned sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg after the 1953 execution of the couple.
The Rosenberg Fund for Children ( RFC ) is a public foundation started in 1990 by Robert Meeropol and named in honor of his parents Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only two United States civilians executed for conspiracy to commit espionage during the Cold War.
* Michael and Robert Meeropol, sons of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Among the 40 authors are such well known figures as journalist Carl Bernstein, feminist writer Kim Chernin, scientist Richard Levins, and author / activist Robert Meeropol ( son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ).
*" Michael and Robert Meeropol ", Biographies of Key Figures in the Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Meeropol and Rosenberg
Michael Meeropol ( born Michael Rosenberg in 1943 ) is a retired professor of economics.
Born in New York City, as Michael Rosenberg, Meeropol spent his early childhood living in New York and attending local school there.
Robert Meeropol separately edited a complete edition of his parents ' prison correspondence, The Rosenberg Letters ( 1994 ).
Meeropol and by
This poem became the lyrics for the song of the same name, also written by Meeropol, performed and popularized by Billie Holiday.
* Lyrics to " Strange Fruit " a protest song about lynching, written by Abel Meeropol and recorded by Billie Holiday
They were adopted by the songwriter Abel Meeropol and his wife Anne, and they assumed the Meeropol surname.
Under the pen name of Lewis Allan, Abel Meeropol wrote the classic anti-lynching anthem " Strange Fruit ", made famous by singer Billie Holiday.
The lyrics were written in 1943 by Abel Meeropol under the pen name Lewis Allen.
The name came from the song written by Abel Meeropol and famously performed by Billie Holiday, itself a reference to racially motivated lynchings.
The song, a protest against lynching written by Abel Meeropol under the pen name Lewis Allan, became a signature song for Holiday.
His political beliefs were influenced by his high school English teacher Louis Allen, also known as Abel Meeropol, author of the poem " Strange Fruit ".
Meeropol and at
Meeropol died on October 30, 1986 at the Jewish Nursing Home in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
Meeropol eventually became a moderately prominent economist, teaching at Western New England College.
Michael Meeropol recently retired as Professor of Economics and chair of the department at Western New England University, a small private college in Springfield, Massachusetts.
* Michael Meeropol at WNEU
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In 1937 Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from New York, saw a copy of the photograph of the Marion lynching.
Morton Sobell ( left ), Marshall Perlin, Robert Meeropol, Franz Loeser, April 19, 1976.
The Rosenbergs ' two sons, Robert Meeropol and Michael Meeropol, spent years trying to prove the innocence of their parents.
* Meeropol, Robert and Michael.
* Meeropol, Robert Meeropol.
* Meeropol, Michael, ed.
Meeropol chose to write as " Lewis Allan " in memory of the names of his two stillborn children.
Michael and Robert took the Meeropol surname.
According to Robert Meeropol, " Strange Fruit ", " The House I Live In " and the Peggy Lee hit " Apples, Peaches and Cherries " provided most of the royalty income of the family.
The resulting number one hit in France " Scoubidou " still earns Michael and Robert Meeropol royalties ; however, these only started coming in after Distel and Abel Meeropol settled a copyright infringement law suit over Distel's plagiarism.
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