Himmler’s Curtains
A Memoir of Loss and Concealment
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Product details:
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Date of Publication 19 March 2026
- ISBN 9781529154849
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 240x156x40 mm
- Weight 750 g
- Language English 700
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*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 Kynaston
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, and that his mother had experienced the appalling horrors of Nazi persecution.
In conversations over the following decades, Simon’s mother gradually, often reluctantly, revealed more of her past: from the growing oppression her family had had to endure in the late 1930s, to her deportation first to Auschwitz and then to Ravensbrück, to the brutal death march she withstood from the ruins of Berlin in 1945. As he pieced her testimony together, Simon came to realise how the memories she had fought so hard to suppress continued to haunt her in the form of terrifying flashbacks and moments of extreme frustration and anger. And he started to understand how her concealed trauma had, in turn, shaped his own development and the course of his life.
Himmler’s Curtains is both a visceral account of a Holocaust survivor’s experiences, and an impressive study of the impact of suffering on two generations of a family. It also movingly reveals the high psychological price exacted by silence.
