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Holocaust Survivor Gets Her Wish: Sings National Anthem at Comerica Park

May 22, 2016, 10:37 AM by  Allan Lengel
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From left: Son Danny Hirsch, husband Bernard, Hermina and oldest son Henry.

Hermina Hirsch, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor who lives in Southfield with her husband Bernard, got her wish Saturday and sang the national anthem before the Tigers played the Tampa Bay Rays in a late afternoon game.

Her appearance made national and international news and was reported widely, including in The Daily Mail in England and on NBC.

Hirsch and her her older sister were shuffled between five Nazi concentration camps during World War II, including Auschwitz, according to her family. She was liberated in January 1945.

"Being a son of survivors it brings such warmth to my heart that my mother was able to carry out her dream," son Danny Hirsch tells Deadline Detroit on Sunday. "The Tigers organization was spectacular."

Hermina Hirsch told WWJ recently that singing the national anthem at a Tiger game was on her bucket list.

Danny Hirsch said his mother first first brought the idea of singing at Comerica Part up at a Friday night dinner. He said the wish came out of left field and he was surprised.

"She had this in her head at a Shabbos (Jewish Sabbath) dinner that before I die I want to sing at a Tiger game," he said.


Read more:  Deadine Detroit


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