Mother of slain hostage Hersh finds meaning in grief as 'badge of love'

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was executed by Hamas after 328 days of captivity following his abduction at a music festival; thousands of Israeli and Palestinian civilians killed in the subsequent Gaza conflict.

In the aftermath of one of the most public grief journeys of our time, Rachel Goldberg-Polin — whose son Hersh was abducted from a music festival on October 7, 2023, and executed by Hamas after 328 days in captivity — has emerged not from her sorrow but through it, finding in his memory a reason to continue. Hersh, twenty-three years old and gravely wounded, sustained hope in a Gaza tunnel by borrowing Viktor Frankl's hard-won wisdom: that meaning is the architecture of endurance. Rachel, who became the human face of the hostage crisis before a watching world, now carries her grief not as defe

Mother of slain hostage Hersh finds meaning in grief as 'badge of love'

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