Detroit – An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor has fulfilled her longtime wish to sing the U.S. national anthem at a Major League Baseball game.
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Hermina Hirsch sang Saturday at Comerica Park in Detroit before the Detroit Tigers played Tampa Bay.
The Czechoslovakia native lives in Southfield, Michigan. She was 17 when her family was split up and sent to concentration camps in 1944. According to her granddaughter, Andrea Hirsch, Hermina Hirsch and her older sister were shuffled between five concentration camps, including Auschwitz. She was liberated in January 1945.
WWJ-TV has reported that Hirsch has been a Tigers fan since she moved to the Detroit area more than 60 years ago. Hirsch has been singing the anthem for years during Holocaust survivor meetings in the Detroit area.
Nebach
Nice of her to be patriotic, but “nebach” sums it up succintly…
Nu… KOL B’ISHA…
The only day they can find to honor someone that survived the atrocities foisted upon her and her co-religionists, was Shabbos?
Even is she didn’t “mind”, what about some sensitivities for other Jews?
On Shabbos?
Mark,
Am I missing ur point? What’s the ‘Nebach’?
Mmmmmm,
What is the issur for her to sing? It’s an issur for men to listen.
How dare you say “Nebach”. How can you question the behavior of someone that went through that gehenom. It is very easy to be “tzadikim” living in America.
Never ever question the behavior of a survivor.
I disagree with some of the commentators, here. Even if she didn’t sing on Shabbos, these commentators wouldn’t have approved, since they don’t like the idea of a woman singing. Look, if anyone is going to be aroused by an eight nine year old singing, then something is wrong with them!
I am sure you don’t say Nebach to all your relatives that don’t keep Shabbos.
For # 6-8 we’ll extend a “NEBACH” to YOU as well.
Just b/c someone is a shoah survivor they have to keep halocho. We should not judge HOWEVER why on earth is this on this site? Would you report on people eating treif in McDonalds if they were shoah survivors?