The last time Rachel Goldberg-Polin heard from her son, Hersh, was the morning of Oct. 7, 2023. At 8:11 a.m., the 23-year-old sent two messages: “I love you,” and “I’m sorry.”
Until that day, Goldberg-Polin writes in her new memoir, her family had a “regular and beige” life. They were “blessed and lucky.”








