Daniel Snowman
Is World War II Receding from ‘Memory’ into ‘History’?
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In which case, isn’t there a danger that a powerful historical memorial (and place of pilgrimage) like Auschwitz might, with time, morph into a monument to a distant, forgotten past, and, eventually, become just another stop on the tourist trail? Just another historical museum? A sort of Tower of London where awful things once occurred. Long ago …
Daniel Snowman
Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. Born in London to a Jewish family in 1938 and educated at Cambridge and Cornell, Daniel became a lecturer at the University of Sussex and went on to work for many years at the BBC as senior producer of radio features and documentaries. A senior research fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (University of London), his many books include a social history of opera and a study of the cultural impact of the “Hitler Emigrés” and, most recently, his memoir Just Passing Through: Interactions with the World 1938-2021.