When We See You Again

by Rachel Goldberg-Polin

This is a memoir of a mother’s grief after the tragedy of October 7th. Many people know the name Hersh, the 23-year-old who was taken hostage. His mother became a fierce advocate for the hostages’ release, traveling with her husband for speaking engagements and pleading to bring more humanity into the world.

In When We See You Again, Rachel pours her pain, love, and longing onto paper, giving voice to the broken among us, and reminding us that even when the world feels choked with darkness, light exists in a different way. How do we find it? Her own experience has been extreme, but at its essence, this is a universal story of trying to live with grief. It is a story of how we remember and how we persevere, of how we suffer and how we love.

Author: Rachel Goldberg-Polin is an American/Israeli activist who became one of the faces of the hostage crisis after October 7th.