About the book: 2016 / This work was originally written by the author in German and published in 2011 in Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin under the title In der Verbannung . Kindheit und Jugend einer Wolgadeutschen (In exile. Childhood and youth of a German woman from the Volga region). A year later, L. German began writing this book in Russian. A serene childhood in her homeland in the village of Marienthal. Then the village of Stepnoy Kuchuk, in Altai, which became a second home. Extreme poverty, the arrest of her father, whom she never saw again. Tragic events, difficult living conditions, but youth remains youth... And happiness came.