Mother of Oct. 7 captive executed by Hamas details agonizing moments of ‘son’s last day:’ ‘Howled like a wounded animal’

For 328 days, Rachel Goldberg-Polin couldn’t bring herself to visit the last place where her son knew freedom.

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, his arm blown off by a grenade, was abducted from the Nova music festival in South Israel’s Negev desert during the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023.

“I initially said, ‘No, I don’t want to go there,’” his mother, whose book, “When We See You Again” (Random House), is out now, told The Post. “It was just excruciating.”

But on Aug. 30, 2024, the American-Israeli pushed herself despite feeling “physically, mentally and spiritually” sick. 

Surrounded by other hostage families, she climbed onto a platform — what she