TICKETS are still available for a history event featuring the step-sister of Second World War diarist and concentration camp victim Anne Frank.

Eva Schloss will give an insight into her life at an event at Talbot Heath School, organised in conjunction with Chabad of Bournemouth.

Eva first became friends with Anne at the age of eight when they lived in the same apartment block in Amsterdam.

They were just a month apart in age and became friends, before both girls and their families went into hiding to avoid Nazi attempts to capture all Jews in the city.

Eva’s family was captured by the Nazis after being betrayed by a double agent in the Dutch underground and transported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camps.

Her father and brother died but she and her mother were freed, barely alive, in 1945 by Soviet troops.

They returned to Amsterdam where Eva’s mother married Otto Frank following the deaths of his wife and children, including Anne, in concentration camps.

Eva has travelled widely throughout her life, determined to preserve the memory of all Holocaust victims, including Anne, whose Diary of a Young Girl is famous the world over.

She will speak at Talbot Heath School in Rothesay Road on Sunday, September 1, at 7.30pm.

Talk tickets cost £12 each and tickets with preferential seating at £40 each. A VIP package, which includes a reception with Eva, a signed copy of her book and preferential seating costs £100 per person.

Tickets from bournemouthchabad.org/schloss