The traveling exhibition compiled in 2016 is dedicated to the memory of the orphans who came to Lithuania from the Soviet-occupied territory of East Prussia in 1945-1948, known as the ‘wolf children’.

At the end of World War II, tens of thousands of orphaned children were left behind in a devastated East Prussia. Many thousands of these children came to Lithuania and today are part of Lithuanian society. Unfortunately, very little is said or known about them. Eventually, these children came to be known as ‘wolf children’. These children are the victims of brutal Soviet terror and witnesses of terrible Soviet crimes. They came to Lithuania when they were very young, found refuge, settled down and deserve to have their voices heard to tell the tragic and painful stories of their lives.

The exhibition presents a historical overview of the events in East Prussia based on archival photographs and documents, stories of those who shared the fate of “wolf children”, illustrated with family photographs and documents, maps of the children’s journeys from the devastated East Prussia to Lithuania and their wanderings in different parts of Lithuania. The monitors contain authentic testimonies of people, the ‘wolf children’.

Virtual exhibition Wolf Children: www.vilkovaikai.lt