Video testimony and an interview with Ella Kuritski, regarding her family's experiences near Varniai, including deportation to the ghetto, to labor camps in Germany, liberation, aliya to Israel and emigration to Canada

Video testimony and an interview with Ella Kuritski, regarding her family's experiences near Varniai, including deportation to the ghetto, to labor camps in Germany, liberation, aliya to Israel and emigration to Canada - Video testimony (in English) of Ella Kuritski, born in Varniai, Lithuania, 01/01/1922, regarding her family's experiences during the Holocaust; the testimony was collected in Canada; - Ban on the use of the Hebrew language by the government of Lithuania; German occupation of Lithuania, 1941; murder of Jews by Lithuanians; detention and imprisonment of Ella's father by Lithuanian policemen, on the claim that he is a Communist; murder of her father by Lithuanian policemen; anti-Jewish legislation in Lithuania; establishment of the ghetto; forced labor; battle of Stalingrad, 1942-1943; concentration of the Jews in a square [marketplace], and selection; murder of thousands of Jews (Ella and her mother are returned to their home); liquidation of the ghetto; transfer of Ella, her brothers and her mother to a camp in the area, early 1944; transfer to forced labor camps in Germany; deportation of Ella's younger brother to Auschwitz; evacuation of the camp due to the approach of the Red Army to the area, and transfer of the Jews on ships; liberation; hospitalization in a hospital; Ella works in a hospital in Germany; aliya to Israel, 1948; emigration to Canada; - Interview (in Russian) with Ella Kuritsky Yakhel, regarding her family's experiences during the Holocaust; the testimony was collected in Petah Tikva, Israel on 30/07/1997.