Seeking Home - A World War II Refugee Childhood in War-Torn China

Seeking Home is a memoir of a childhood in China as a refugee from Nazi Germany during the turbulent years 1934-49.

About the author

Born in Germany, Eva Richter grew up as a refugee from Nazi Germany in Tianjin, China, where she lived through the turbulent years of the run-up to the Second World War, the Japanese occupation and the civil war that followed, until the Communist Revolution in 1949 decided the family to leave for the United States. She retired from teaching English at the City University of New York in 2002 to take up NGO advocacy work at the United Nations and co-founded the NGO Committee on Migration at the UN in 2007, serving on its Executive Committee and the Executive Committees of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women and the UN Department of Public Information. She is a member of the NGO Committee on Human Rights, was a member of the Expert Working Group for Addressing Women's Human Rights in the Global Compacts.

Product details

• Authors: Eva Richter
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 20.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9798881804404
• ISBN: 979-8-8818-0440-4
• Series: World Social Change
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Asia, 20th Century, HISTORY / Jewish, Autobiography: historical, political & military, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), East Asia, Far East, Autobiography: historical, political and military, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Relating to Jewish people and groups, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional