NFBPWC Women on the Move Committee Presents:

 Author and NFBPWC-NYC member

Eva Richter and her memoir

"Seeking Home, A World War II Refugee Childhood

in War-Torn China"

September 27th, 12pm EST(NYC)

Eva Richter will present her memoir of a childhood in China, as a refugee from Nazi Germany during the turbulent years 1934-49. Richter recalls the little-known history of North China's occupation by the Japanese during the World War II years amid the remnants of a dying British colonialism.

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, and was a member of the Expert Working Group for Addressing Women’s Human Rights in the Global Compacts.

Seeking Home was published on August 28, 2025 and is available through 

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Seeking-Home-Refugee-Childhood-War-Torn/dp/B0DNVPNB72

Bloomsbury:  https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/seeking-home-9798881804404/

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