Heir to an execution [WorldCat Entities]

"Heir to an execution"@en
"Granddaughter's story"@en

contributor

http://schema.org/contributor

description

http://schema.org/description

"Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are Cold War iconic symbols and their trial and execution embody the hysteria fueled by the red scare. But who were the Rosenbergs as people? Heir to an execution follows the quest of filmmaker Ivy Meeropol to understand her grandparents."
"Documentary in which Ivy Meeropol tells the story of how her family was torn apart in 1953 when her grandparents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed for 'conspiracy to commit espionage'. Their names were seared into American history that day as both martyrs and 'atom spies', but the young Jewish couple left behind two orphaned boys - Ivy's dad Michael, and six-year-old Robert. The film sheds new light on a chapter in American history and provides a personal perspective on an iconic event."@en
"Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are Cold War iconic symbols and their trial and execution embody the hysteria fueled by the McCarthy's red scare. But who were the Rosenberg's as people? Listen to staunch Rosenberg comrades and hear the intimate interviews with the filmmaker's father, Michael Meeropol, who brings an immediacy to his parents' story. This painful revelation eerily underscores the depth of political paranoia of the time and the impossibility of discovering the ultimate truth about the Rosenberg's guilt or innocence."@en
"Chronicles Ivy Meeropol's effort to come to terms with the lives and deaths of her grandparents, Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg, executed as traitors in 1953 after being accused of relaying the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviets during World War II."
"Ivy Meeropol, granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenburg, investigates what drove the Rosenburgs to sacrifice their lives and jeopardize the future of their children."@en
"Filmmaker Ivy Meeropol attempts to understand her grandparents Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Cold War iconic symbols whose trial and execution embodied the hysteria fueled by Senator Joe McCarthy's red scare propaganda."
"During the height of The Cold War, the trial and execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg shook America to its core. Because of the stranglehold Senator Joe McCarthy's red scare propaganda had on the nation, a true reflection of Julius and Ethel never surfaced during this volatile period. Fifty years later, granddaughter Ivy Meeropol goes on a quest to find the 'true' Rosenbergs and to answer the questions that have haunted her family to this day."