Himmler’s Curtains

About the book

*Shortlisted for Footnote x Counterpoints Writing Prize*
A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust.
A finely honed journey across time and place, affecting and powerful, and deeply relevant for our times.' - Philippe Sands
'Simon Weisz's evocation of heartless mid-twentieth-century Europe, as public and private worlds so devastatingly collide, is compelling; his account of the jarring miscomprehensions between himself and his parents, as the evasions and false comforts mount up, is poignantly tragi-comic; and his staunchly unsentimental portrait of his glamorous mother - victim, monster, human - is masterly and deeply moving.' - David...