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Europe is central to the
disease...There is no
respite from anti-Semitism,
even after the crime of the
Holocaust," he said.
"The purpose of the
event was to serve as a pre-
vention of indifference,"
said Rachel Kamerman,
chief coordinator of the
program. "I feel that the
greatest prevention of
indifference is education.
Right now we live amongst
a generation that went
through the horrors of the
Holocaust. When that gen-
eration is no longer with
us, it's going to be our gen-
eration's responsibility to
educate others. God forbid -`
we should have to go
through this again."
After the speeches, sev-
eral young adults com-
pared the Holocaust to eth-
nic cleansing in the former
Yugoslayia. One audience
member said she has a rel- '
ative in Europe who has
experienced recent anti-'
Semitism firsthand.
"I find that extremely
disturbing," responded
Jerry Pyzer of Waterford.
"You want to say 'Leave
the country,' but (Jews)
shouldn't have to leave,
should they?" El
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n a cruel day in
1953, the United
States government
made Robert Meero-
pol an orphan by electro-
cuting his parents at Sing
Sing Prison in New York.
"I have no doubt that
my parents were not
guilty as charged and not
the heads of a spy ring
that stole the secrets of
the atom bomb," he said.
Mr. Meeropol and his
older brother, Michael, are
the children of Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg, the first
American-born civilians
ever put to death for
wartime spying. Both par-
ents, radical activists,
were arrested in 1950
with Ethel Rosenberg's
brother, David . Green-
glass, who had worked at
Los Alamos, N. M. on the
atomic bomb.
Charged with spying for
the Soviet Union, to sup-
ply data to build a Soviet
bomb, Greenglass claimed
that Julius had recruited
him to collect the informa-
tion. The Rosenbergs were
accused of passing atomic
secrets and arrested. They
pleaded innocent, but in
1951 a jury found them
guilty and Judge Irving
Kaufman sentenced them
to die in the electric chair.
Greenglass, sentenced to
15 years in prison, was
released in 1960.
Mr. Meeropol will speak
at a reception at the home
of Julie Hurwitz and Bill
Goodman in Palmer
Woods, 7:30 - 10 p.m.
Friday, March 19.
Many voices were raised
in protest against execut-
ing the Rosenbergs both in
this country and Europe.
Some felt the couple had
not had a fair trial and
many believed the sen-
tence of death was far too
harsh. Albert Einstein and \-/
Pope Pius XII were among;
those who urged clemency.
The case was appealed to
the Supreme Court which
denied all appeals and
twice President Dwight
Eisenhower rejected pleas es
for clemency.
Now 44-year-old attor-
ney and foundation head
with a grown family of his
own, Mr. Meeropol
remembers little of his
parents' arrest. "I was 3
years old when my father,
Robed Meeropol
speaks tonight on
a mission to help
children.
then my mother, were
arrested. What I can
remember is a good family
and the prison visits we
made when I was over
years old. The, isits were
sort of calm and ordinary
with no histrionics. My
parents kept themselves
under control and the feel-
ings I got were good.
"I've never blamed
them, which comes from a
positive perspective in-
stilled by Abel and Ann
Meeropol, strangers who
later adopted us and must
be credited with our grow-
ing up normal.
"This was the McCarthy
period. The rest of the