Ethel Rosenberg
1915–1953 (age 38)
espionage defendant
Biography
Ethel Rosenberg, born in 1915, became widely known as an espionage defendant whose trial and execution in 1953 remain subjects of intense reflection; she was laid to rest at Wellwood Cemetery.
Her supporters continue to remember her as a mother and activist who believed deeply in fairness, even as history wrestles with the controversy surrounding her fate.