The play "Marytė" tells the story of how, at the end of the Second World War and in the post-war period, the children of Lithuania Minor, known as "Wolfskinder" (Wolf Children), were separated from their families or orphaned. There were about 7,000 of them. When they were small, they went with one parent (usually their mother) or with strangers in search of a morsel of bread, and the bigger ones went to bring a morsel home. Because of hunger, the "wolf children" fled to Lithuania, some reaching Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and Ukraine. The experience of these children is exceptional. Hunger and fear were their childhood companions. The "wolf children" who lived in Soviet-occupied Lithuania for a long time were not allowed to share their memories publicly, and the victims of violence and abuse were deliberately kept silent. The denial of their own identity was the only condition for the survival of such children. It was only after the restoration of independence that these people had the opportunity to start searching for themselves, to find out and register their real birth years, places, names and surnames, and to find their relatives. The "wolf children" of German origin living in Lithuania (aged about three to sixteen at the time) formed the "Edelweiss-Wolfskinder" community, which is still active today, helping people to discover their roots and to preserve their traditions and culture.