Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 – June 19, 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass; September 28, 1915 – June 19, 1953) were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 using New York's state execution chamber in Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to be executed during peacetime.

Quotes

• We are innocent... To forsake this truth is to pay too high a price even for the priceless gift of life.
  • Ethel Rosenberg, Death House Letters (1953), p. 149

• Ethel wants it made known that we are the first victims of American Fascism.
  • Julius Rosenberg, Letter to Emanuel Bloch (June 19, 1953), in Ethel Rosenberg, Testament of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (1954), p. 187

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on Wikipedia