Episode 27: The Family Historian

In this entertaining episode of The Spark, Dr. Weiss is joined by Jessica Greenberg—Bornblum alum and daughter to Bornblum art teacher, Paula Greenberg—who is a self-proclaimed family historian who has researched the life of her fascinating grandfather.When presented with two bound volumes with hundreds of letters written by her grandfather between 1942 and 1946, Jessica began a journey of exploration to find out more about her grandfather who was stationed in Berlin, Germany, during World War II. She tells the story of how her grandfather got a bombed-out synagogue up and running and how he helped thousands of displaced families and started an orphanage after the Liberation.Along with her mother, she visited the places in Germany that her grandfather mentioned in his letters and self-published memoirs in order to learn even more about him. Now, she inspires young people to be their own family historians.