Himmler’s Curtains
A Memoir of Loss and Concealment
$32.58
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2026
Summary
A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust.
For the first eighteen years of Simon Weisz’s life, his parents were at pains to keep their past concealed from him. All he knew for sure was that they had grown up in Hungary and that they had arrived in Britain after the Second World War. It was only as he reached manhood that they started to confide their carefully guarded secrets to him—that they were Jewish,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529154856 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529154855 |
| Author: | Simon Weisz |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Hutchinson Heinemann |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 700g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
Simon Weisz
Simon Weisz* read English at Cambridge University, subsequently winning a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he gained a Diploma in Opera Studies. He sang professionally for a number of years before embarking on a marketing career, ultimately establishing his own agency which promoted the work of various international architecture studios. More recently he gained a Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Counselling and now pursues a career as a psychotherapeutic counsellor in the West Country.
Himmler’s Curtains, which was short-listed in 2024 for the inaugural Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize, is his first book.
*Simon Weisz is a pseudonym adopted for professional reasons.
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