‘Its what Hersh would want us to do’: Goldberg-Polins promise to heal, continue living

“We are going to heal,” Rachel Goldberg tells Channel 12 at the end of her first interview since her son Hersh Goldberg-Polin was killed.

“There are people who walked out of Auschwitz and went on to have a good life. They never forgot their parents and their siblings and their spouses and their children who they lost there. But they went out and they decided — and it took tremendous effort — and they had good lives.”

“And there are people who walked out of Auschwitz and never left Auschwitz,” she adds.

“We’re in mourning. We’re suffering, but we are making a choice personally that we are going to live life. We need to do it for ourselves. We need to do it for our daughters, and we need to do it because Hersh would want us to, so we will live life,” Jon Polin says.