Himmler’s Curtains: A Memoir of Loss and Concealment by Simon Weisz #joyce author of Icebreaker and Wildfire

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Himmler’s Curtains: A Memoir of Loss and Concealment by Simon Weisz #joyce author of Icebreaker and WildfireShortlisted 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. For the first eighteen years of Simon Weiszs 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