A holocaust survivor will talk about her experiences in the wartime Nazi concentration camps later this month.

Trude Levi suffered the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald before she collapsed from exhaustion and was left for dead on the infamous "death march" of 1945 Hungarian-born Trude, 78, will speak during a holocaust memorial day at the University of Sussex, Brighton, on January 23.

The free annual event focuses this year on the themes of rescue and resistance and includes talks, film shows and discussions.

Historian Sybil Oldfield will talk about German women rescuers and researcher Deborah Schultz, from the university's centre for German Jewish Studies, will chair a discussion on visual representations of resistance and rescue.

Fellow researchers Rebekah Webb and Lori Gemeiner will address Holocaust education and racism on the internet.

Event organiser Chana Moshenska, director of educational programmes at the German Jewish Centre, said: "There are important messages from the holocaust that relate to contemporary issues."