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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.

Books by Simon Weisz

Himmler’s Curtains

A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust.

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