Nearly 700 Jews died in the Holocaust, according to new research revealed this week during a conference at Bar-Ilan University. Referring to new developments every year, researcher Victor Hayoun said, "Until 2006, we knew about 400 victims of Tunisian origin. In 2012, we reached 488. Today, the number is approaching 700."
Hayoun said that the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial institution in Jerusalem also had a large gap in the number of casualties. He explained, "Yad Vashem, for years, also believed that the number of victims among Tunisian Jews stood at 50. Why 50? This was the number of those killed in the forced labor camps, but not all were in forced labor camps. About 390 others fell in various ways in Tunisia itself and about 265 in death camps, primarily in Auschwitz."