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Abdelkader Mesli
1902–1961
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- imam
Abdelkader Mesli (Arabic: عÙبÙد Ù±ÙÙÙÙادÙر Ù ÙسÙÙÙÙ, Ê¿abd ʾal-QÄdir MaslÄ«; 1902 â 21 June 1961) was an Algerian Sunni imam and resistance member during the Second World War.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Mauthausen concentration campDates unknown
Biography
Abdelkader Mesli (Arabic: عÙبÙد Ù±ÙÙÙÙادÙر Ù ÙسÙÙÙÙ, Ê¿abd ʾal-QÄdir MaslÄ«; 1902 â 21 June 1961) 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. His actions were rediscovered long after his death, in the early 21st century. Historians' estimates of the number of Jews he saved vary, but they range between 500 and 1600.
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