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

Abstract

This is a book about an online community of the Second Generation (2g), children of Holocaust survivors. Created in 1995, “The 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 The List even before the web existed. Created when internet communication was just beginning for most people, it was the first 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. The “Second Generation” had finally come into its own. The book tells the story of the List and its members over a quarter of a century.