Over 9,000 people died in the Baltic Sea on January 30, 1945, in an attempt to evade the Red Army. The Wilhelm Gustloff was the most lethal shipwreck in history, but some details of the sinking remain ...

In January, this column carried a story about the sinking of the ship Wilhelm Gustloff after it was torpedoed by Russians in 1945 during World War II, drowning 9,000 refugees from West Prussia (now ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A discussion about the world's worst maritime disaster and why, to this day, it is a little-known story ...

Gerhard Eichel was supposed to be among 10,500 German soldiers and refugees that boarded the MV Wilhelm Gustloff on Jan. 30, 1945. But the 18-year-old was too ill, so he was left behind. It probably ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed on Jan. 30, 1945, killing thousands of people—many of them refugees The victims of the worst ...

In her first novel, the international best-seller “Between Shades of Gray” (Philomel, 2011), Ruta Sepetys was inspired by the history of her father’s homeland of Lithuania, where in 1941 many families ...

The sinking of the liner Wilhelm Gustloff was by far the worst single naval disaster in history, claiming 9,400 lives, more than six times the toll of the Titanic. But few even know about it. That is ...

Author Ruta Sepetys likes to look for what she calls "hidden chapters of history." She writes historical fiction for teens, and judging by the success of her debut novel, Between Shades of Gray, ...