Overview
- Rachel Goldberg-Polin used a 60 Minutes interview to describe the pain of losing her son and to say she feels she failed to bring him home alive.
- Hersh Goldberg-Polin was seized at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023 after a grenade in a shelter tore off his left hand.
- He was held in Gaza until late August 2024 when Hamas executed him, and Israeli forces later recovered his body in a tunnel.
- His family led a sustained public campaign that included hundreds of interviews, meetings with world leaders, and loudspeaker pleas from the Gaza border.
- The assault that day killed about 1,200 people in Israel and led to hundreds of kidnappings, which families and reporters documented to piece together hostages’ fate.