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"If you had seen what I have seen"--Natascha Wodin's mother said this sentence again and again and yet took what she meant to the grave. Her daughter was ten and didn't know much more than that she belonged to a kind of human waste, to some kind of garbage that was left over from the war. Why did they live in one of the camps for "Displaced Persons", where did the mother come from, and what had she experienced? Only decades later does the black box of her origin open, first a little, then more and more. "She Came from Mariupol" is the extraordinary book of a search for clues. Natascha Wodin traces the life of her Ukrainian mother, who came from the port city of Mariupol and was deported to Germany with her husband in 1943 as "Ostarbeiterin". She tells in a depressing, even shocking, intense way about the appendage of the Holocaust, a footnote in history: forced labor in the Third Reich. Her mother, who as a young girl witnessed the downfall of her aristocratic family in the Stalinist terror before boarding a German ship with an uncertain destination, emerges from anonymity as if by a late miracle, gets a face that is unforgettable.