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Detroit Tigers Can Fulfill Holocaust Survivor's Bucket List [Video]

Baseball club says it's working to accommodate Hermina Hirsch's dream to sing national anthem at Detroit Tigers game before she dies.

Hermina Hirsch, who survived the World War II Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, wants to do one more thing before she dies.

The 89-year-old Oakland County woman, who lost her parents, three brothers, and aunts and uncles in the concentration camp, wants to sing the national anthem at a Detroit Tigers game.

It could happen.

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The Tigers organization has been overwhelmed by support for Hirsch and is working to make her dream a reality, WWJ reports.

“At my age, I figure that this would do it,” Hirsch told the radio station. “I don’t want to die before I sing at a baseball game.”

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Hirsch loves the song, loves singing it and loves the meaning behind it, she told WXYZ-TV.

Relatives of Hirsch, who lives in Southfield with her husband, Bernard, of 70 years, recorded a video of her singing “The Star Spangled Banner” and posted it on Facebook.

She hit homerun with the internet.

Singing before thousands of fans at Comerica Park doesn’t faze Hirsch a bit.

"If I lived through the concentration camp, it couldn’t be that bad,” she told WWJ.

Surviving the atrocities committed by the Nazis, who robbed her of her family, gave her courage and nerves of steel, she said.

"If we live through the concentration camp, we have nothing to lose there,” Hirsch told WXYZ. “This is the way I feel I have nothing to lose here by trying to sing, and I love singing to the national anthem."

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