Rachel Goldberg-Polin, mother of murdered hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, is set to release a memoir titled When We See You Again on April 21, detailing her experience losing a child to Hamas terrorists, publishing house Penguin Random House announced on Thursday.
“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,” the publisher wrote in the announcement.
According to Random House, Goldberg-Polin’s story is told in “raw, unflinching, deeply moving prose.”
“There are days when I break completely,” Goldberg-Polin wrote. “I have cried for an entire day straight. I didn’t think it was physically possible, but the weeping never let up. That is a very long time to cry. I kept hoping I would run out of tears. And then there are days when there is a whisper of sun. Not out there in the sky. In me. In us.”
Goldberg-Polin is also set to narrate the audio version of the memoir.
“It is a story of how we remember and how we persevere, of how we suffer and how we love,” Random House wrote.
Father of Roni Eshel to publish book titled Abba Ba (Dad is Coming)
Additionally, Eyal Eshel, father of deceased IDF surveillance soldier Roni Eshel, will release a book titled Abba Ba (Dad is Coming), detailing the 34 days from October 7 to the day the IDF confirmed Roni had been murdered by Hamas.
The book, to be published by Sela Meir, was edited by author Galila Ron-Feder-Amit.
“I am deeply moved to launch my book Abba Ba,” Eshel said.
"This is a book that tells of a double journey we went through from the moment contact with Roni was cut off on the morning of October 7: the attempt to understand what had become of her, and where the soldier was who only moments earlier had been sitting in the surveillance operations room; and the attempt to understand where my country was - the country I thought I knew - and where those were who were supposed to protect Roni and protect us, and whose voices have not been heard since.”
Ron-Feder-Amit, who has published more than 400 books to date, noted that while she normally isn’t an editor, she could not refuse the request from the Eshel family.
“For 34 days, Roni Eshel’s parents did not know what had become of her, and did everything they could to ‘flee from the news.’ While editing the book Abba Ba, I identified, cried, and relived the nightmare day after day, hour after hour, and above all, the words of Avraham Shlonsky echoed within me: ‘I vowed the vow to remember everything, to remember and forget nothing.’”
Walla contributed to this report.