Here's A Lady Who Isn't Whining About Microaggressions
Hermina Hirsch, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, sang the national anthem at the Detroit Tigers game this past Saturday, reports Beth Darby at The Patch.
It was a dream of Hirsch's to do this.
Hirsch and her family were sent to live in a ghetto in Czechoslovakia in 1944 and were later imprisoned by the Nazis in World War II concentration camps. She was 17 at the time....The camp where Hirsch had been imprisoned was liberated on Jan. 21, 1945, and Hirsch hitched rides to get back to her birthplace, her granddaughter, Andrea Hirsch, told WWJ.
After a year in a sanitorium to regain her health, a cousin set up a blind date with Bernard Hirsch, her now husband of 69 years. They moved to the Detroit area in 1953, and are longtime Tigers fans.
...Singing before thousands, she told WWJ at the time, didn't faze her at all.
"If I lived through the concentration camp, it couldn't be that bad," said Hirsch, who regularly sings "The Star Spangled Banner" to open Holocaust survivor meetings in the Detroit area.
At 89 years old, I expected her voice to sound much worse.
Quite inspirational, really. For a woman at the venerable age of 89, she actually looks quite fit. I would have placed her at early seventies.
Patrick at May 27, 2016 4:05 AM
She just hasn't realized how much "The Heteronormative Patriarchy" has supressed her.
(Sorry, channeling my inner RS McCain).
Fantastic story, except for the Tigers fans part.
mer at May 27, 2016 5:05 AM
Bravo. And great words from someone who has experienced "macroagression". As the last of the WWII generation dies off, I really wonder what happens next. It seems that their sacrifices, what it took to survive and win the war, are being either forgotten or ignored.
Cousin Dave at May 27, 2016 6:19 AM
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