Martin Herskovitz was born in the United States in 1955 to parents from Czechoslovakia, his mother a Holocaust survivor. Martin began a Second-generation activity in 2000 as part of a listserv of the Second generation, in which he began to publish poetry about his experience as a child of a Holocaust survivor. Among other things, his poems were published in Midstream and Maggid. In addition, on the basis of his poems, he prepared a lecture on the subject of “Poetry and Second generation”, which he presented at the University of Illinois, Lesley University in Israel and at the annual educators conference at Yad Vashem.