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Ivy Meeropol (1968 - ) is the producer and director of the 2004 documentary Heir to an Execution. The daughter of Michael Meeropol and Ann Karus Meeropol and granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and of Abel Meeropol who wrote Strange Fruit and The House I Live In, Ivy Meeropol graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and served as a legislative aide to Congressman Harry Johnston (D-FL). She has written for numerous magazines and newspapers and three screenplays.

Meeropol produced her film, Heir to an Execution, to explore her family's conflicted views of the Rosenbergs' trial and subsequent execution. In one notable scene, Meeropol considers confronting the key witness against the Rosenbergs, Ethel's brother David Greenglass, who admitted in 1996 to having lied under oath about Ethel's involvement. Though Meeropol leads a camera crew outside Greenglass's house, she decides this is sufficient to satisfy her curiosity and avoids confronting him. Heir to an Execution was featured at the Sundance Film Festival, but was defeated by Dig! for the Documentary Grand Jury Prize, and by Born into Brothels
for the Documentary Audience Award.

Ivy Meeropol is currently working on a six part documentary series for the Sundance channel entitled THE HILL. It features the intense work of three young staff members of the office of Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) as they respond to the crushing electoral defeat in the 2004 presidential election (where George Bush's win in Florida was a significant as was his win in Ohio) by picking themselves up and doing battle as strong opponents or, for example, President Bush's efforts to privatize social security.

The documentary will begin airing in August of 2006 and continue through September just in time to be discussed during the Congressional elections.

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