The article examines lives of German women in the USSR under the conditions of deportation by nationality. The article introduces the memories and interviews of German women who experienced the tragedy of the nation during the Stalinist repressions, as well as the assessments of researchers of this issue. The analysis makes it possible to reconstruct the general “female path” of a German woman in the conditions of the Soviet reality of the 1940-1950s. The focus of attention is on important issues of everyday life, some details of everyday life, the experience of survival in a foreign cultural environment, taking into account the realities of the time, religious life, family reunification, arrangement in places of exile and psychological adaptation to new conditions. The factors caused by dramatic historical events put women in a position where they were forced to take responsibility not only for their own fate, but also for the fate of their children and parents. In many respects, these experiences allowed German women to survive, preserve their ethnic traditions, language and self-preservation. Finding themselves in dire circumstances, the women had to apply the skills they had learned from their ancestors and remember everything they had once been taught. Their nationality, the stigma of traitors and enemies, made the others to take German women more disdainful than other deportees. The recollections, considered in conjunction with letters, diaries and memoirs, constitute a single set of sources for creating a general historical panorama. The analysis of the presented ego-documents helps to understand better Soviet Germans fate during and after the war
