In the Shadow of Wolves
by Alvydas Šlepikas
German children hiding in Lithuania, erasing themselves to survive.
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you want to understand what war does to children who fall through every category meant to protect them
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In 1945 thousands of German children fled Soviet East Prussia on foot in winter — their parents dead or missing, the Red Army behind them. Those who survived crossed into Lithuania and were taken in by farming families, hiding their identity, learning Lithuanian, becoming someone else entirely in order to live. Šlepikas reconstructs their stories from testimony and archive. A dispatch from inside one of WWII's most forgotten human catastrophes — children who survived by disappearing. Short, precise, unforgettable.
Where This Book Lives
- Setting
- Lithuania • Eastern Europe
- Voice
- Written by a Lithuanian author
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For the family bookshelf
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