Anne Frank, an iconic figure from the Holocaust, will forever be remembered as a teenage girl because she never lived past age 15, when she died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust.

But, Anne Frank's death at the hands of the Nazis could have been prevented if her family had not been denied entry into the United States, the Washington Post reported in a 2015 story that has been making the rounds anew on social media in the wake of President Donald Trump's recent executive order barring Muslim immigrants from certain majority Muslim nations from entering the U.S.

The Post cited a paper written by Richard Breitman, a history professor from American University, who argued that Frank's father, Otto, made many attempts to secure visas to flee Nazi-occupied Europe, where Jews were being slaughtered. "Otto Frank's efforts to get his family to the United States ran afoul of restrictive American immigration policies designed to protect national security and guard against an influx of foreigners during time of war," Breitman wrote. Sound familiar?

Unfortunately, the Franks were denied admission to the U.S. after going through a "tortuous process... involving sponsors, large sums of money, affidavits and proof of how their entry would benefit America," according to Breitman. "The moment the Franks and their American supporters overcame one administrative or logistical obstacle, another arose," he wrote.

Otto Frank even tried to get only his two daughters out of Holland, where they lived in hiding, and to the U.S. where they would be safe. But immigration laws were constantly changing in America, and the Nazis were making it increasingly difficult for Jews to leave.

The Franks were eventually discovered and sent to a concentration camp where Anne and her sister died of typhus. Their mother died of starvation. Otto Frank, however, survived.

Additionally, in honor of Friday's International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Twitter account, @Stl_Manifest, is also remembering Holocaust victims who could have been saved if they were allowed to enter the United States.

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My name is Joachim Hirsch. The US turned me away at the border in 1939. I was murdered in Auschwitz pic.twitter.com/pfvJtMpIps — St. Louis Manifest (@Stl_Manifest) January 27, 2017

If she had survived, "Anne Frank could be a 77-year-old woman living in Boston today—a writer," Breitman told NPR in 2007.

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