Colourful character who had a film made about her life during the war years
Remembering Annette Eick, who died on 25 February, 2010. Ms Eick was one of Brixham's most colourful characters, whose life was made into a film which has been shown in 12 countries. She was 100 when she died.
Ms Eick lived in her home at Northfields Lane until three months before she died at Laywell Nursing Home.
The prolific poet and diarist, was born a Jew in Germany in 1909 and spent her teenage years and early life in pre-war Berlin, an exciting and liberal city as portrayed in the popular musical Cabaret.
She managed to flee to England at the outbreak of the Second World War while her younger brother Horst escaped to Denmark.
Sadly, their parents Louis and Minna were left behind and died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Ms Eick began a new life in London, mixing with the artistic and literary set where she met many like-minded people including her long-term friend and companion of 40 years Trude Klingel, who died in 1989. Annette had always wanted to live near the sea, so the pair moved ...
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