Si Kaddour Benghabrit
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Abdelkader Ben Ghabrit, commonly known as Si Kaddour Benghabrit was an Algerian religious leader, translator and interpreter who worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was the first rec
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![Abdelqader Benghabrit (second from right) with Muhammad al-Muqri, Charles Émile Moinier [fr], Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco, in Rabat 8 August 1912.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Si_Kaddour_ben_Ghabrit_et_le_sultan_Moufay_Hafid.jpg/500px-Si_Kaddour_ben_Ghabrit_et_le_sultan_Moufay_Hafid.jpg)
Abdelqader Benghabrit (second from right) with Muhammad al-Muqri, Charles Émile Moinier [fr], Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco, in Rabat 8 August 1912.
Inner courtyard of the Grand Mosque of Paris
French Resistance
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The French Resistance was a resistance movement made of a collection of different revolutionary groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second
Si Kaddour Benghabrit
…of France in World War II, he hid and saved numerous Jews in the basements of the Grand Mosque of Paris. Alongside Abdelkader Mesli, he joined the resistance and protected numerous victims of persecution, sometimes estimated to have been more than one thousand persons. Benghabrit received high recognition…
Members of the Maquis near Boulogne-sur-Mer in September 1944
The cemetery and memorial in Vassieux-en-Vercors where, in July 1944, German Wehrmacht forces executed more than 200 people, in reprisal for the Maquis's armed resistance. The town was later awarded the Ordre de la Libération.
Identity document of French Resistance fighter Lucien Pélissou
The ruins of Oradour-sur-Glane, in the Limousin region of the Massif Central