Hello everyone, welcome to Times Will Tell, a weekly podcast by The Times of Israel. 

This week, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are speaking with the out-going, longtime head of Yad Vashem, Avner Shalev. Shalev will speak about the United Nation’s 2005 adoption of January 27 -- the day Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army -- as the global commemoration of the Holocaust. We also speak about cynical political uses of Holocaust memory, researchers’ undying battle for truth, and how Yad Vashem is much more than a mere museum.

Next, we’ll speak with Yad Vashem educator Orit Margaliot, who has put together a new virtual tour of Auschwitz’s Block 27 pavilion in Poland, which is also under Yad Vashem’s auspices.

And finally we speak with Dana Porat, the director of Yad Vashem’s digital division, about her team’s work online, which has only become more critical over the past year.

During this episode we will hear music commissioned for Yad Vashem, including the piece “Facing the Loss,” which was a joint production between artist Uri Tzaig and Amir Lloyd, and a setting of "Ani Ma'amin" from an installation by Hagit Shimoni.

PHOTO: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp in Poland, May 10, 2017. (Isaac Harari/FLASH90)

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