
Sir Simon Baron-Cohen
Desperately Seeking Wisdom
The Importance of Family Trauma
I wanted to talk a bit about your father. He sounds like a positive influence on your life as well. But you tell a story in one of your books that when you were seven years old, he was talking to you about the Holocaust. And he said that there were people in the world who made lampshades out of Jewish people. How do you feel about that sort of looking back now? Because it's obviously had a huge impact on the way you look at things. Yeah. I mean, you know, he was born in 1930 and so he was nine years old at the beginning of the Second World War. So he was a child going through the Second World war.
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