Growing memorial in Brookline pays tribute to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of six hostages recently killed in Gaza – Boston News, Weather, Sports [Video]

BROOKLINE, MASS. (WHDH) – Boston-area community members are mourning the deaths of six hostages killed in Gaza — including Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who had ties to New England.

Goldberg-Polin, whose body was found this week in the Gaza city of Rafah, helped integrate a group of New England students to Israel on a tour program in 2017.

“There are not the right words in the English vocabulary to express the shock, pain, the horror in all of this,” said Debbie Kardon, the former Cohen Camps Director of Israel and Leadership.

“To have had someone be in your care for six weeks, and to know them, to appreciate them, to have that connection, it’s unimaginable that any of this could have happened,” Kardon continued.

Friends of Goldberg-Polin’s family live in Brookline and put up a sign with his picture when he was kidnapped Oct. 7.

The sign turned into a makeshift …