Schoolchildren will be offered a lesson in tolerance when the Anne Frank exhibition comes to the Island later this year.

The Jewish Community of Bermuda (JCB) is bringing the exhibit to the Bermuda Society of Arts at City Hall for four weeks at the beginning of May and are promising to give a ?value added? interpretation of the travelling presentation.

As well as all the information boards, which include comprehensive text and pictures of the life and times of the Jewish schoolgirl who spent 25 months hiding from the Nazis, the Community is also looking to bring over Holocaust survivors and even recreate the attic where she lived.

Her diary, saved during the war by one of the family?s helpers, Miep Gies, was first published in 1947 and has now been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.

?As a Jew, Anne Frank is a very important historical figure,? said Community president Randi Cunningham.

?The retelling of her life story is a reminder to everyone of what unchecked hatred can do and how what starts off as minor hatred or bigotry can grow.

?We want the exhibit to serve as a centrepiece for a community wide event, focusing on issues of tolerance and human rights.?

The details of which speakers will visit Bermuda and how schools will be able to take advantage of the educational aspects are still being finalised, with the JCB expected to announce details nearer the time.

Members of the community will act as docents at the exhibition and will be trained in the weeks prior to the event opening.

Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust.

She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during the Second World War in an annex of rooms above her father?s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the others living with them were arrested and deported to Nazi concentration camps.

In March of 1945, nine months after she was arrested, Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen ? she was 15-years-old.