CO-founder and editor-in-chief of The Big Issue, Dr John Bird MBE will introduce a special performance of And Then They Came For Me at the Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth on Sunday in tribute to Ralph Millward, the Big Issue vendor killed in Westbourne in May.

One of the most widely produced new plays, And Then They Came for Me – Remembering the World of Anne Frank is a multimedia play that combines videotaped interviews with Holocaust survivors Ed Silverberg and Eva Schloss with live actors recreating scenes from their lives during the Second World War.

Ed was Anne Frank’s first boyfriend and she wrote about him in the beginning of her now-famous diary.

Eva Schloss was the same age as Anne Frank and lived in the same apartment building in Amsterdam. Her family went into hiding the same day as the Frank family and like the Frank family, they were betrayed.

On Eva’s 15th birthday, her family was arrested by the Nazis and sent to concentration camps. Eva and her mother survived and, after the war, her mother married Anne’s father Otto.

Part oral history, part drama, part direct address, part remembrance, And Then They Came For Me breaks new ground and has been acclaimed by audiences and critics worldwide.

Dr John Bird MBE will be interviewing Dr Eva Schloss following the performance.