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==Survivors== None of the events of the Wolf children were reported in the press and they only became known to the public from 1990 after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. The official position of the Soviet and Polish governments {{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} at the time was that there were no Germans in these areas, and this had been their official position as early as the [[Potsdam Agreement]] in August 1945. Historian [[Ruth Leiserowitz]], who lived in Lithuania, researched and published books about the ''Wolfkinder of East Prussia'' under her maiden name, Ruth Kibelka, and her married name. Some historical records given by children from East Prussia survived, describing how their families were overtaken by advancing Soviet forces as they tried to flee. They were sent back to their old homes in East Prussia, found them destroyed, were expelled from their homes, and then some died from starvation, cold, and [[typhoid fever]]. The orphans had to find a way of surviving and became Wolf children.<ref>{{in lang|de}} Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. (Hrsg.): ''Treibgut des Krieges - Zeugnisse von Flucht und Vertreibung der Deutschen.'' (Historical records on flight, expulsion, Wolf children). P. 120-128. Verlag Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V., Kassel. Kassel 2008.</ref> Another five orphans, born in the years 1930-1939, told Leiserowitz how they managed to survive and were transferred to a children's home in East Germany.<ref>{{in lang|de}} [http://www.politische-bildung-brandenburg.de/publikationen/pdf/wolfskinder.pdf Ruth Leiserowitz: ''Von Ostpreußen nach Kyritz. Wolfskinder auf dem Weg nach Brandenburg.'' (title translated: From East Prussia to Kyritz. Wolf children on their way to Brandenburg). Brandenburgische Zentrale für politische Bildung, Potsdam 2003] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716234125/http://www.politische-bildung-brandenburg.de/publikationen/pdf/wolfskinder.pdf |date=2011-07-16 }}, {{ISBN|3-932502-33-7}}, p. 48-106</ref> In an [[obituary]] notice for an East Prussian woman, born in 1939 and deceased in 2009, it was revealed that she had lived as a Wolf child under terrible conditions as an orphan without home and shelter in East Prussia and Lithuania.<ref>{{in lang|de}} Obituary notice in Hamburger Abendblatt from December 19, 2009, p. 27</ref> The story of one survivor can be read in ''Abandoned and Forgotten: An Orphan Girl's Tale of Survival in World War II'' by Evelyne Tannehill. It details how the author and her family fell victim to the Soviets who invaded her parents' farm by the [[Baltic Sea]] in East Prussia. Her family was separated; only after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was she able to return to East Prussia to revisit her childhood homeland.<ref>{{cite book|author=Tannehill, Evelyne |date=2007|title= ABANDONED AND FORGOTTEN: An Orphan Girl's Tale of Survival in World War II|publisher=Wheatmark|isbn= 978-1-58736-693-2}}</ref> Another outstanding story is that of Liesabeth Otto, born in 1937, who, after her mother had died from starvation, went with her brothers and sisters to her homeplace [[Wehlau]], where she managed to survive until 1953 by working and begging. In 1953, she was sent to a detention camp for children because she was caught stealing food and clothes. After an odyssey through many detention camps, later on looking for work in the Soviet Union, she located her father and brother in West Germany in the 1970s.<ref>{{in lang|de}} Ingeborg Jacobs: ''Wolfskind. Die unglaubliche Lebensgeschichte des ostpreußischen Wolfskindes Liesabeth Otto.'' (title translated: Wolf child. The unbelievable life story of the East Prussian Wolf child Liesabeth Otto). Propyläen, Berlin 2010, {{ISBN|3549073712}}</ref> Russian writer [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] described his experiences in Prussia as a Soviet soldier, in his poem ''[[Prussian Nights]].''
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