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Book review: Himmler’s Curtains: A memoir of loss and concealment by Simon Weisz

Book review: Himmler’s Curtains: A memoir of loss and concealment by Simon Weisz

Thursday, June 11, 2026
SIMON WEISZ’s memoir of intergenerational Holocaust trauma takes its title from a twist in the story of his Hungarian-Jewish mother, Ildikó. Having survived stays in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück, a period of slave labour in Berlin, and then a retreat...