Myra Soble
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Myra Soble nee Perske, was born on March 18, 1904, in Nikloaev, Ukraine, Russia. Myra Soble was the wife of Jack Soble. Myra and Jack were married on November 24, 1927, in Moscow. In early 1928, Myra Soble went to Germany to join Jack, who had gone shortly after their marriage. When Myra's mother became ill in 1931, she returned to Russia. She was still in Russia in 1933 when Jack traveled to Russia to see her. Jack and Myra and most of Jack's family left Russia on January 10, 1941, from Vilkaviskis, Lithuania. They traveled to Japan as they were given Japanese visas. Myra Soble and other members of the group entered the United States at San Francisco on September 27, 1941. Jack Soble arrived in San Francisco on October 20, 1941.
On August 9, 1957, Myra Soble received a 5½ year prison sentence for her role in the Rosenberg spy ring. On October 8, 1957, Federal Judge Richard H. Levet, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, reduced Myra Soble's prison sentence from 5½ years to four years. Myra Soble was transferred to the Alderson Prison for Women, Alderson, West Virginia on November 12, 1957.
On July 5, 1991, President George H.W. Bush granted Myra Soble a presidential pardon for her conviction (Conspiracy to receive and obtain national defense information and transmit same to foreign government, 18 U.S.C. § 793).
