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Lukas Kreibig

Years after they were separated, Gisela received a letter from her mother who was nearly a thousand miles away. Although they reconnected through letters, Gisela was unable to travel to Germany to see her mother before her death.

The German Red Cross received thousands of requests to find missing children and parents, and worked to reunite families after World War II. In this 1961 letter, the Red Cross notified Gisela Unterspann that her mother was located in Germany.

Relatives sent many of the wolf children in Lithuania memories of family and their earlier lives because most of their belongings were left behind when they evacuated from East Prussia. Here, Reinhard Bundt looks at old family photos.