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}}'''Abdelkader Mesli''' (1902{{snd}}21 June 1961) (in {{Lang-ar|عَبْد ٱلْقَادِر مَسْلِي}}, ''ʿabd ʾal-Qādir Maslī'') was an Algerian [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] [[imam]] and [[French Resistance|resistance member]] during the [[Second World War]]. Through his actions at the [[Grand Mosque of Paris]], at the [[Château du Hâ|Fort du Hâ]], and within the [[Organisation de résistance de l'armée|Army Resistance Organization]] (ORA), he contributed to the rescue of several hundred Jews from the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]]. He also extended assistance to escaped [[Troupes coloniales|African soldiers]]. Having survived [[Dachau concentration camp|Dachau]], he returned to France after the war but passed away in relative obscurity.
His actions were rediscovered long after his death, in the early 21st century. Historians' estimates of the number of
== Biography ==
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