World IN BRIEF : ISRAEL : Holocaust Toll May Be 250,000 More

Long-hidden Soviet documents from World War II have disclosed that the Nazis may have killed a quarter of a million more Jews in the Holocaust than at first believed, Israeli researchers say. Shmuel Krakowski, head archivist at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, said the material could increase by 250,000 the estimate of the number of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, now believed to be 6 million. He said that the evacuation before the Germans came “was less successful than we thought. And so that means more Jews than we thought were caught by the Germans.”