Georges Loinger, who had served in the French army and escaped from a German prisoner-of-war camp before joining the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, a Jewish relief organization known as the OSE, became one of the war's most daring smugglers of Jewish children, shepherding them across the Swiss border
Loinger, whom Le Monde described as the "dean of the Jewish resistance in occupied France," was 108 when he died Friday at his home in Paris. His death was confirmed by Jean-Franois Guthmann, president of the OSE, who said he did not know the precise cause.