Ivy Meeropol

Who is Ivy Meeropol?

Ivy Meeropol is the director and producer of the 2004 documentary Heir to an Execution. She is the daughter of Michael Meeropol and Ann Karus Meeropol and granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and adoptive granddaughter of Abel Meeropol author of "Strange Fruit" and "The House I Live In". A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she served as a legislative aide to Congressman Harry Johnston.

Meeropol produced her film, Heir to an Execution, to explore her family's conflicted views of the Rosenbergs' trial and subsequent execution. The film was featured at the Sundance Film Festival.

Ivy Meeropol recently directed a six-part documentary series for the Sundance Channel entitled The Hill. It features the intense work of four young staff members at the office of Congressman Robert Wexler as they respond to the crushing electoral defeat in the 2004 presidential election. The documentary aired on the Sundance Channel in August and September 2006.