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The Bill Newman Show 10.10.14

The Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Archive website is a portal that allows visitors to view high-resolution digital images of the more than 500 letters in the collection.  The digital collection includes letters from Julius Rosenberg to his wife, children, mother, sister and lawyer Emmanuel H. Bloch; the letters between Julius and Ethel once she, too, was incarcerated; as well as Ethel’s letters to family and Bloch.  Visitors may search the digital collection by name, subject keyword or date, and explore the rich resource.  The website also hosts an electronic, searchable inventory of the collection which includes other archival material in addition to the letters.  The website address is:

www.bu.edu/rosenbergarchive

 

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