Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
 1. June 2001
 2. June 22, 1941—The Day the War Began
 3. 1937—The Elections
 4. Ukraine 1941—The Bookkeeper’s Story
 5. December 2002—Finding the Journal
 6. 1956—Brooklyn
 7. Summer 1923—Leaving Kovrov for Ukraine
 8. September 1925—School Days
 9. September 5, 1931—Death of Fedia
10. Pedagogical Technical Institute—1931–1933
11. Fawn Lake, New York—2002
12. The Harvest—1933
13. The 1960s
14. A Married Woman—June 1934
15. Motherhood—March 30, 1935
16. Donetsk, 1938—The Belobandit Uncle
17. My USIA Trip to USSR—1975
18. The Last Days Before the War—1939
19. Goodbye—October 13, 1941
20. Under the German Flag—Autumn 1941
21. Alexander, My Father—1941–1945
22. Summer 2001—The Decision of a Lifetime
23. Eintopf Suppe—1942–1943
24. The Battle for Stalingrad—1942–1943
25. A Close Call—Winter 1944
26. February to March 1944
27. Waldenburg, Germany—1944
28. Inga—Spring 1944
29. The Last Train for Leipzig—February 1945
30. Leipzig—Spring 1945
31. Stalag X Wietzendorf—1941–1945
32. Goodbye, Leipzig—April 1945
33. Repatriation Attempts—1945
34. Displaced Persons Camp—Fischbeck, 1948
35. A Mighty Resettlement of Peoples—1948–1949
36. Coming to America—January 1952
Epilogue: June 2007
Index