Ethel Rosenberg was an exceptional woman. Born with a painful curvature of the spine to a poor family of Jewish immigrants and a mother who never loved her, she was determined to make her life matter. A talented singer, she won a place at New York’s prestigious Schola Cantorum and performed at Carnegie Hall.
Clare Mulley
The great betrayal of Ethel Rosenberg
The convicted spy was in fact a victim of Cold War hysteria, says Anne Sebba, betrayed by the American legal system and by her own brother

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