Jewish-French Resistance hero Georges Loinger, who saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish children during World War II, died Saturday at the age of 108, AFP reported.
The children he saved, whose parents had been killed or sent to Nazi concentration camps, were under the responsibility of the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants, (OSE) a Jewish children's aid society founded in St. Petersburg in 1912.
Between April 1943 and June 1944, OSE workers and other rescuers helped hundreds of children escape to Switzerland across the lightly guarded border. Loinger is credited with saving at least 350 children.