peter: michael meeropol, you ended up becoming meeropols.ere abel and anne meeropol and what was your path to get to their house? michael: somebody who knew manny bloch very well and knew them told bloch they would be perfect. they were left-wingers. my father was definitely a member of the comet's party. we did not learn that -- -- we did not learn that until much later. my mother was artistic. my father was an englh teacher who later became a writer. his most successful piece of writing was the song "strange fruit" and "the house i live in" and he remained so proud of "strange fruit" his entire life. they were wonderful people. we could not have done better. in my opinion, they saved our lives by giving us incredibly normal childhoods. peter: but you started off with your maternal grandmother, the hebrew children's home, etc. michael: we went through the mill. from the time my mother was arrested until we moved in with the meeropols, we were back and forth. the time with my grandmother was awful because she was roundly criticizing our pare

welcome michael meeropol michael meeropol. first of all, i want to thank harold paul for including me on this fabulous, distinguished panel. it is wonderful to be sitting next to david and it is an absolute honor to share the stage with professor jefferson, i met my father when i was ten years old christmas eve, 1953. my brother and i began living with dad and mom. soon. and during the next seven years before i went away to college, i had the good to live. an extraordinary and yes, privileged life. robbie and i won the lottery with our adoptive parents and their extended family. and during those years and subsequent years as an adult. from time to time, i would learn things about dad's life that me to the inescapable conclusion that he was a most extraordinary human being. intel, a funny, kind, loving, talented, a true mensch. since he died in 1986, i have learned, even more about him from the work of musicologist nancy baker. david's book, filmmaker katz, who was in the audience, and my father's biographer, david newstead, ab

you became meeropol.and meeropol what was your path to get to the house? >> the last was somebody who knew very well and told them they would be perfect. they were left in fact my father was definitely a member of the communist party. we did not learn that until much later they're very, very artistic my mother been a schoolteacher works in the field of drama with teenagers and adults but my father been a high school english teacher that became a full-time writer. his two most successful pieces of writing was the song the strange fruit and the song the house i live in. he remained so proud of strange fruit his entire life. they were wonderful people. we could not have done better. i say in my opinion they saved our lives by giving us incredibly normal childhood. >> you start with your grandmother hebrew time et cetera. >> we went to that mill from the time our mother was arrested until he moved in with the meeropol we are back and forth with a lot of different places. the time with her maternal grandmother

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