During the 1920s, a liberal time period in the Weimar republic, Eick wrote poems and short stories for lesbian magazines, including "Garçonne". 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 Reichskristallnacht. Her parents were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.