LEADER 03669cam a2200553Ii 4500001 272216 005 20240621233726.0 008 160122t20152015ne ac 000 0ceng d 020 9789081408936 |q(hardback) 020 9081408933 |q(hardback) 035 (OCoLC)ocn935690434 035 272216 043 e-gx---e-li--- 049 LHMA 041 1 gereng |hger 040 ERASA |beng |erda |cERASA |dNOC |dOCLCF |dOCLCQ |dZYU |dOCL |dLHM 050 4 D810.C4 |bH427 2015 100 1 Heinermann, Claudia, |d1967- |ephotographer. 245 10 Wolfskinder : |ba post-war story / |cphotography, Claudia Heinermann ; text, Sonya Winterberg ; translation, Sonya Winterberg in collaboration with Ulrich Boltz. 264 1 [Rijswijk] : |b[Claudia Heinermann], |c[2015] 264 4 |c©2015 300 404 unnumbered pages : |bchiefly color illustrations, portraits ; |c32 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 336 still image |bsti |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 500 Spine title. 500 "Limited edition: 750"--Page 3 of cover. 520 8 The war orphans of World War II in East Prussia were called Wolf Children. They roamed the Baltic countryside in search for food and shelter. Hundreds of thousand Germans fled the advancing Red Army in East Prussia and Königsberg at the end of the Second World War. Time and again children got lost or went missing on the flight. While some witnessed the murder of members of their own family, others were forced to helplessly watch their siblings die of starvation, the grandparents die from weakness, or the mother succumb to an epidemic. On their own, these kids now tried to survive in the forests of the Baltic states. "When I first heard about the fate of the Wolf Children in the spring of 2011, I was deeply touched and at the same time surprised that I had never heard of them before. It's a topic that has gripped me ever since. Early in my research I met my journalist colleague Sonya Winterberg who was also interested in the topic and had started to write a book. We decided to collaborate and to preserve as much of their life stories as we possibly could by speaking with them and photographing not only the individuals, but also whatever tangible memories they would show us. Around 63 wolf children are left in Lithuania today, most of whom are well advanced in years. To date we have visited 42 of them during a number of trips and many have become very dear to us."--Claudia Heinermann, Exhibition: Nutshuis Den Haag, the Netherlands. 546 Text in German and English. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren |zGermany |vPictorial works. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren |zLithuania |vPictorial works. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren |zGermany |vBiography. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xChildren |zLithuania |vBiography. 611 27 World War (1939-1945) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180924 650 7 Children. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00854835 651 7 Germany. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01210272 651 7 Lithuania. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01227863 648 7 1939-1945 |2fast 655 7 Oral histories. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01726295 655 7 Oral histories. |2lcgft 655 7 Biography. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 Pictorial works. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01423874 655 7 Biographies. |2lcgft 655 7 Illustrated works. |2lcgft 700 1 Boltz, Ulrich, |etranslator. 700 1 Winterberg, Sonya, |eauthor, |etranslator. 852 0 |bscoversize |hD810.C4 |iH427 2015