Dr. Greenberg’s interest and extensive experience working with the transmission of trauma through the generations and her extensive clinical experience in this area has led her to the exploration of her own creativity.
Her play “Eavesdropping of Dreams” featuring three generations of women in a family of a Holocaust survivor was produced at the Cherry Lane Theater in 2012.
A second version of the play, “Breaking the Silence,” was produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2013, and published by Eldridge Musicals and Plays Publishing.
In 2013 Greenberg also produced a video documentary: “I am Carrying the Holocaust in my pocket”- Interviews with four granddaughters of Holocaust Survivors
Dr. Greenberg created a 1-hour documentary called “I am carrying the Holocaust in my pocket”, based on a therapy group which she led with grandchildren of survivors. The film portrays the multiple voices of four third-generation women, three of them artists and one social work student, who speak candidly about their grandparents’ stories of trauma and survival, and the impact it had on their lives.
Being interested in the third generation for many years Dr. Greenberg was impressed by the fact that unlike the second generation who felt either flooded by their parents’ traumatic stories or burdened by the silence, grandchildren were inquisitive , and acted like historians. At the same time they too continue to experience a certain burden.
Nowadays, as grandchildren have become adults, and the generation of survivors is dwindling, many of them have taken on the responsibility of bearing witness, and are committed to remembrance and commemoration.