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The Forgotten Resistance - The Mosque of Paris 1940-1944

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Documentary film that tells about a Paris mosque in which children, mostly Jews, hid in its basement between 1940-1944 and about the opposition of the Muslims and the head of the mosque, Kaddour Ben Ghabrit, to the Nazi occupation. Includes a short excerpt from an archival film that documents resistance fighters during the liberation of Paris.