A Skokie grandmother remembered her late 23-year-old grandson Sunday at a vigil to honor the second anniversary of Hamas’ attack on an Israeli music festival.

Leah Polin, 87, said her grandson, Hersh Goldberg Polin, was hardworking and loved to have fun. He was one of the hostages taken after the Oct. 7 attack in 2023.

Last year, she saw a video of her grandson with his arm blown off, but knew he was alive.

She later found out he was in a small tunnel with five other men and women. Leah Polin said word got out that they were to be released in days.

“From what we heard, everybody was excited,” she said.

Her hopes to find him were high until he was killed. Her grandson was shot to death last August.

The north suburban Jewish community and its supporters gathered for the vigil at the Sk

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