Heir To An Execution

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed in 1953. The charge was that they had sold atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. They left two children behind. Nobody in the family would take the boys in. The children were given to another household. The director Ivy Meeropol is the daughter of one of them. She grew up believing her grandparents were innocent. Years later she starts looking into the case herself. She talks with members of the family. She finds friends from those years. She looks at papers that have been declassified. The papers show Julius was involved in something. Ivy thinks about what to do with that. She tries to understand the belief that took them there. Morton Sobell and Michael Meeropol appear in the ninety nine minute documentary. It is an American production Ivy Meeropol finished in 2004.