Mother of Oct. 7 hostage executed by Hamas writes book detailing the grief of losing her son

For 328 days, Rachel Goldberg-Polin couldn’t bring herself to visit the last place where her son knew freedom. Hersh Goldberg-Polin, his arm blown off by a grenade, was abducted from the Nova music festival in South Israel’s Negev desert during the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023. Rachel Goldberg-Polin, his mother wrote a new book When We See You Again, where she shares the raw, unfiltered grief of losing her son and the words that are helping her survive it. Writing through unimaginable pain, she describes how putting her emotions on paper became a lifeline, a way to keep going, one moment at a time.