Belkacem Radjef (1909–1989) was born in Fort-National (today Larbaâ Nath Irathen, Tizi Ouzou Province), Algeria and spent 32 years of his life in the fight for Algerian independence from French colonialism.

He joined the friends of El Ouma, a group of leaders of the first movement for independence in 1930 after the L'Etoile Nord Africaine had been dissolved in 1929.

He was voted onto the thirty-member central committee of the Etoile Nord-Africaine (ENA) and remained in this position through both subsequent renaming of the organization: the Parti du Peuple Algerien in 1937 and the Mouvement pour le Triomphe des Libertés Démocratiques in 1946.

At the same time he founded Le Secours National Algerien, whose mission was to feed, lodge, and educate the neglected shoe-shining youth of the colonial era.

Personal Life: Radjef had three children with his French wife, Reine Bulot: Tarek, Yamina, and Patrick (né Amar).