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Himmler’s Curtains

A Memoir of Trauma and Identity after the Holocaust

2026

EN

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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 d...

14,99 €

Himmler’s Curtains

A Memoir of Trauma and Identity after the Holocaust

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

2026

EN

Brought to you by Penguin.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...

16,08 €

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