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V. Janiselis was born in 1913. March 13 Dagilynė Mansion, halfway between Pasvalys and Biržai. 1914 With the outbreak of the First World War, the whole family, fleeing from the approaching front, flocked even to Moscow and only in 1918 did they return to Lithuania. Janiseliai began to create a new life in Žadeikiai, Pasvalys parish, where he built a house and a hill, and a decade later, for the money saved and a bank loan, his father installed a sawmill to cut boards and beams for the surroundings. farmers. Young Wilhelm helped his father with these tasks.
When he was young, he became interested in photography, and his accomplice, a friend of several years older, J. Adamkevičius, later sent him to Siberia from Lithuania to send him ribbons and chemicals for printing photos. In amateur photography, Wilhelm captured his immediate surroundings: friends, family, nature, and everyday life in the countryside.
In 1936, V. Janisel got married, and eventually the family had four children: two sons and two daughters. After the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1941, the first deportations began in June, which bypassed the Janisel family. After the death of his father, work in the fields and the sawmill became the concern of V. Janisel.
