Books and Monographs
Gone Without a Trace: German-Russian Women in Exile - by Nelly Däs - translated
by Nancy Bernhardt Holland, 2001. A compilation of memoirs and memorials based
on the recollections of German-Russian women who experienced the terrors of
Stalinism first hand - from the "dekulakization" of 1929 through the years of
Siberian exile. The volume traces the horrific consequences for ethnic Germans -
even those who had been living in Russia for generations - after the outbreak
of war between Germany and Russia. Condemned to forced labor in the snow, ice,
and bitter cold of Siberia without adequate clothing, always at the brink of
starvation, and subject to the brutalities of sadistic overseers,
German-Russian women describe their valiant efforts to survive.
Soft cover - 232 pages.