During the 1920s , a liberal time period in the Weimar republic , Eick wrote poems and short stories for lesbian magazines , including Garconne . After the Nazis came to power in 1933 , she had to give up on journalism and started working as a nanny . In 1938 , she was granted a visum to live in the UK and fled to London after surviving an attack by Nazis on the farm she was staying at during the Reichkristallnacht . Her parents were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp
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Annette Eick