A Snapshot of the Holocaust in North Africa

On Yom HaShoah, which began last night at sundown, much attention is usually paid to the millions of Jews who were murdered in Europe, and the suffering of the hundreds of thousands of European Jews who survived. But much of North Africa also came under the sway of the Axis powers, and although Jews there were less likely to meet their deaths, their situation was hardly enviable. The worst fate, note Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, was reserved for those who were sent to European concentration camps. As for the others, Boum and Stein cite the following account, written by Eugène Boretz in 1944, of the joint Italian and German occupation of Tunis: