Their sons were adopted by a fellow Communist named Abel Meeropol.
He is famous for having written the lyrics to Strange Fruit - a song popularized by Billie Holiday.
Their older son, Michael, is a Marxist professor of economics at Western New England College and a leftwing radio commentator.
Their younger son, Robert, was a leader in the anti-Vietnam movement (he was associated with John Kerry in those days) became the editor of The Socialist Review and is now a criminal defense attorney in MA.
Ivy, Michael's daughter, is a documentary filmmaker who made a film about her family and her grandparents' "moral innocence" entitled Heirs To An Execution. She also made an anti-Bush documentary about Congress entitled The Hill.
Robert's daughter Rachel is an attorney for the Center For Constitutional Rights - a Marxist legal partnership whose best-known partners are the late William Kunstler and Ron Kuby.
The title should have been Heirs to the Crime of the Century
Rotten apples don’t fall very far from the tree.
I say the whole Rosenberg clan should be treated in a way consistant with their chosen political philosophy.
Nuff said.