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Holocaust survivor sings national anthem at Tigers game

Published May. 21, 2016 6:00 p.m. ET

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DETROIT (AP) An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor has fulfilled her longtime wish to sing the U.S. national anthem at a Major League Baseball game.

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. Hirsch was liberated in January 1945. She and her older sister were shuffled between five concentration camps, including Auschwitz, until she was liberated in January 1945, according to her granddaughter, Andrea Hirsch.

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.

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