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Survivor Gets
Wish To Sing
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Harry Kirsbaum I Contributing Writer

T

he bucket list wish of a Holocaust
survivor to sing the national
anthem at a Detroit Tiger’s game
quickly turned into reality when a video
caught fire on social media last week.
Hermina Hirsch, 89, announced
her wishes during
Shabbat dinner at her
Southfield home to her
husband, Bernard, and
two sons, Henry and
David, on April 1.
“You know what? I
am going to sing, God
Hermina Hirsch willing, at the baseball
game my national
anthem,” she told her sons. “I love the
song.”
On Sunday night, granddaughter
Andrea Hirsch of Indianapolis used
Facebook to tell her friends of her grand-
mother’s wish and posted a close-up
video of Hermina singing an a cappella
version of the anthem. The post drew
25,000 views.
By Tuesday, local news media picked
up on the wish and CBS Detroit posted
a newer version of Hermina singing
solo in her den, in front of three bar
mitzvah photographs of her sons, which
produced 69,000 more views, and phone
calls and emails to the Detroit Tigers
front office.
A day later, CBS reported her wish was
granted, date to follow.
“It’s a big honor,” she said, amazed at
the speed of the granting of her wish
and humbled at the thought. “I do it for
them, the survivors.”
Hirsch grew up in Kosice,
Czechoslovakia, and survived five con-
centration camps, including Auschwitz,
before her liberation. She lost most of her
family, but met Bernard after the war.
They married in 1947 and immigrated to
the United States and settled in Detroit
where two of her siblings lived.
Bernard knows baseball and Hermina
knows singing.
“I am watching every game,” he said.
“We have been married 69 years, and
she’s been singing songs to me for 69
years.”
Hermina said, “My husband and sons
are Tigers fans. I don’t even know what’s
going on, but I love to go to the games.”
They’ve been members at
Congregation B’nai Moshe in West
Bloomfield for 50 years, and she sings in
the choir.
And on May 21, she’ll be singing to a
much larger crowd at a Tigers game. It’s
a Saturday, and she says she’ll bend the
Shabbat rules just this one time.

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