Auschwitz concentration camp

One of the last Romanian-born survivors of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele's infamous experiments on Holocaust camp victims has died in Poland.

Eva Mozes Kor died aged 85 in Krakow, where she was on an annual educational trip with the institute she founded in 1995 to "prevent prejudice and hatred" by sharing her experience in the Nazi camps.

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos and Parliament President Nikos Voutsis are participating on Thursday in the annual "March of the Living," the three-kilometer walk from the Auschwitz concentration camp to Birkenau, to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, Deutsche Welle reported.

Romania's Prime Minister Viorica Dancila said on Wednesday that a joint meeting of the national governments of Romania and Israel will take place "in the near future," adding that she had a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the subject, and that a date for the meeting will be set.

A 78-year-old baby doll with the hair of an unidentified Jewish girl, who was slaughtered in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II in 1941, is the center of attention at the Anatolian Toy Museum in the southern province of Antalya.

People hold balloons reading "Never Again" during a memorial marking the 76th anniversary of the first deportation of Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz, in Thessaloniki, Greece, Sunday. [Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters]

How the Cohen sisters eluded deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The "Elie Wiesel" Institute commemorates the victims of Roma genocide during the Holocaust period and draws attention to the fact that discrimination and racism are still a vulnerability of society.

Romanian opposition politicians and civil society groups called for Agriculture Minister Petre Daea to resign on Thursday, a day after he compared the incineration of pigs infected with swine fever to the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Moshe Haelion, a 93-year old Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, takes part in a memorial marking the 75th anniversary of the first deportation of Jews from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz, in Thessaloniki, Sunday.  [Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters]

The phrase "Polish death camp" has long upset and infuriated many people in Poland.

It's an inaccurate term most often used by uninformed tourists, journalists or politicians in relation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the notorious former Nazi concentration camp which lies in southern Poland.