The photo shows an adorable smiling toddler dressed in shorts and white shoes. Beneath it, a tragic caption: My name is Joachim Hirsch. The US turned me away at the border in 1939. I was murdered in Auschwitz.
Photos with similar heartbreaking words, but different faces and names, circulated at a rapid clip on Twitter Friday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day .
St. Louis Manifest , a new account, has been tweeting the images all day to remember passengers aboard the St. Louis , a German transatlantic liner that set sail on May 13, 1939. Almost all aboard were Jews, mostly German citizens, fleeing the Third Reich and hoping to gain entry into the United States.
