Sansal, Boualem. The German Mujahid: The First Arab Novel To Confront the Holocaust.(Brief article)(Book review)

Sansal, Boualem. The German Mujahid: The First Arab Novel To Confront the Holocaust. Europa Editions, dist. by Penguin Group (USA). Oct. 2009. c.240p. tr. from French by Frank Wynne. ISBN 978-1-933372-92-1. pap. $15. F

A different perspective on the Holocaust is presented in this novel by Algerian author Sansal. Rachel and Malrich Schiller, two brothers from a remote village in Algeria who now live near Paris, learn that their parents have been brutally murdered by Islamic fundamentalists. When Rachel returns home, he finds papers, medals, and documentation hidden by his father showing that he was a German soldier and chemical engineer who worked at Auschwitz and other death …