Anne was 15 years old when she died in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen Belsen in 1945.

The group of youngsters who this week attended an exhibition in Leeds about her short life were around the same age – 14 and 15.

Anne Frank + you is being staged by Leeds Met University at its Headingley campus. The story is being used to teach a new generation of teenagers about the dangers of racism.

Anne spent the last two years of her life hiding in secret compartments with her mother, father and elder sister in a house in occupied Holland during the Second World War.

Eventually betrayed and captured, she became another statistic among the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.

The daily diaries she kept while in hiding have been published and read by tens of millions of people.

But her story is new to today's generation of teenagers.

This month students from across Leeds are visiting the exhibition to learn about Anne Frank and to see her in the context of teenage life today.

The latest group of school students to visit the exhibition came from Morley High School.

Leading them was teacher Ruth Allan, who said: "We have been reading The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas."

That book is a fictional tale of a friendship between the son of the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp and a young Jewish inmate. The striped pyjamas are uniform of concentration camp inmates.

"Now they are looking at the way Anne Frank is a real life child, not a fictional one," she said.

After seeing the exhibition, some of the students said they were shocked by what they had learned.

"I think everyone should learn about it," said 15-years-old Whitney Horner"

Emma Tetley, 14, said: "Her story is linked together with racism."

Shane Syron, 15, said: "It showed the different types of things that went on in the world then and what is going on in the world now."

Sarah McMillan, 14, said she recognised the links between the rise of racism under Hitler and the rise of racism today.

Shane Syron said: "If you were not blonde you were not German – it is like being an Asian or a different colour, or wearing a bandana."

Emma Tetley said: "People get killed for what they believe in, for their colour."

All condemned racism, and the violence which inevitably follows.

"People should campaign against racism, " said Whitney Horner.

The free exhibition runs until June 26 at Gandhi Hall, James Graham Building, at Leeds Met's Headingley campus off Otley Road, 10am to 7pm, Monday to Friday (excluding June 12) and 11am to 4pm, Saturdays and Sundays.

To find out more about The Anne Frank Trust UK call 020 7284 5852, email info@annefrank.org.uk or visit www.annefrank.org.uk.