Himmler’s Curtains

A beautifully written memoir full of startling vignettes… a vivid portrait of Holocaust survival, rich with postwar period detail. A compelling story * Jewish Chronicle *
Striking… a subtle, loving and poignant portrait. * Matthew Reisz, Times Literary Supplement *
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 glamourous mother – victim, monster, human – is masterly and deeply moving. * David Kynaston *

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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