The List: The Making of an Online Transnational Second Generation Community

This is a book about an online community of the Second Generation (2g), children
of Holocaust survivors. Created in 1995, " e List" was the brainchild of Paul Foldes,
a 2g electrical engineer and consumer attorney turned businessman. Knowing that
online communities were an opportunity to reach beyond local meetings, he founded
e List even before the web existed.
Created when internet communication was just beginning for most people, it was
the rst to break local and national barriers to become a truly international, Englishspeaking,
2g framework. Based on a free internet platform, with moderators working
on a volunteer basis, it required no funding. e "Second Generation" had nally
come into its own. e book tells the story of the List and its members over a quarter
of a century.

Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz is the Director of the Finkler Institute of Holocaust
Research and Professor of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan
University in Israel. She is the author of numerous books and articles and specializes in
topics pertaining to gender, Jewish religious life, the Holocaust, memory, State of Israel,
the United States, commemoration, and descendants of Holocaust survivors.