A literary event. "She Came from Mariupol" is the extraordinary book of a quest for traces. Natascha Wodin explores the life of her Ukrainian mother, who came from the port city of Mariupol and was deported to Germany in 1943 as an "Ostarbeiter" with her husband. She tells a gripping, even distressingly intense story of a nearly forgotten crime of the Nazi regime, a footnote in history: forced labor in the Third Reich. Her mother, who survived the terror yet was broken by it, emerges from anonymity through this book, gaining a face that is unforgettable. A book against forgetting, a book that is as moving as it is compelling, a book that must be read.