Anne Frank’s stepsister - a Holocaust survivor - is visiting a Richmond school this week to talk about her horrific experience during the Nazis’ invasion.

Eva Schloss MBE, 88, from Maida Vale, will attend Radnor House in Twickenham on Thursday (May 25) to discuss her time spent in hiding and imprisonment at Auschwitz Concentration Camps.

Eva's mother, Fritzi, married to Anne Frank’s father, Otto, in 1953 after both lost their spouse and families in the Holocaust.

Julie Foulkes-Hannam, learning resources manager of the school, said: “This is an incredible honour for our school and an amazing opportunity for our students to learn first-hand of the horrors of the Holocaust and ask questions about this time in our history.

“The world today is a fairly turbulent place and, in light of Monday's terrorist attack in Manchester, it is important that we study events like the Holocaust in order to understand how to deal with such outpourings of hate.”

Radnor has been preparing for Ms Schloss visit and been using Anne Frank’s diary and Ms Schloss’s story in their English lesson, ethical discussions in religious studies and history lessons to learn more on the subject.

The children are very excited to learn from one of the few remaining survivors what it was like to be in hiding, life in the concentration camp and Russian army rescue.

Henry, a Year 10 student, said: " I think I will gain so much knowledge about the impact of the events in history and be able to understand so much more having the emotional angle that Ms Schloss will provide us with.”

"This is a once in a lifetime experience that very few people of my age will have and I feel so lucky to be able to be involved in meeting someone that survived the Holocaust and to understand what it meant to them,” added Jack, another Year 10 student.

One of the founding members of the Anne Frank Memorial Trust and a trustee of the Anne Frank Educational Trust UK, the Austrian was awarded an MBE in 2012 for her work in schools and prisons - educating people on the dangers of intolerance.

Emily, a Year 10 student said: "To appreciate what it was actually like to be shaved, tattooed and dehumanised and to talk to someone who went through it, will help us understand how wrong that was and is to treat anyone that way.

"The opportunity to know and understand what happened and ask questions so that we get a personal perspective, rather than just facts and figures from a teacher will deepen my knowledge of this historical time," added James, a Year 10 student.

Ms Schloss has written a biography outlining her life story and to help raise awareness of the holocaust and current genocide atrocities and more information can be found at http://www.evaschloss.com/.