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 … ...

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

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 ...

The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff. Witness History. In January 1945, an estimated 9,400 people died when a German military transport ship was sunk by a Soviet submarine.

In January 1945 in the freezing Baltic Sea, 9,000 to 10,000 people, mainly refugees and children, perished on board the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner once the pride of Germany's Nazi regime.