Messaoud El Mediouni
Messaoud El Medioni, known as "Saoud l'Oranais" was a reputed Jewish-Algerian band leader and proprietor of the original Café Oran. He was the uncle of French-Algerian pianist Maurice El Mediouni.
Around 1938 the mother of a 13-year-old blind girl from Tiaret, Sultana Daoud, sent her to study with "Saoud l'Oranais" - this girl was later to become famous as Reinette L'Oranaise, the most prominent of all Jewish Algerian singers.
Medioni was arrested by the Germans in Marseille in January 1943 and sent to Sobibor concentration camp where he was gassed the 23 March 1943.
