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Abdelkader Mesli

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Imam and French resistant member (1902-1961)

FranceLived 1902 to 1961 · aged 59
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Abdelkader Mesli was an Algerian Sunni imam and resistance member during the Second World War. Through his actions at the Grand Mosque of Paris, at the Fort du Hâ, and within the Army Resistance Organization (ORA), he contributed to the rescue of several hundred Jews from the Holocaust.

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Combatant's Cross
Medal of deportation and internment for facts of Resistance
Officer of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite

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Abdelkader Mesli was an Algerian Sunni imam and resistance member during the Second World War. Through his actions at the Grand Mosque of Paris, at the Fort du Hâ, and within the Army Resistance Organization (ORA), he contributed to the rescue of several hundred Jews from the Holocaust. He also extended assistance to escaped African soldiers. Having survived Dachau, he returned to France after the war but died in relative obscurity.

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France
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Lived 1902 to 1961 · aged 59
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