Edmond Solomon "Moen" Chait (1912-1975) was a resistance leader of the Dutch-Paris Escape Line during the Second World War.

A year later in 1943, that escape line over the Swiss border expanded to reach from the Netherlands to Spain and Switzerland, going through Brussels, Paris, Lyon and Toulouse.

Chait took on the most dangerous missions such as carrying large amounts of cash across borders or escorting Jewish children to safety.

On one such trip across occupied France and Belgium he carried a list of the names and addresses of Jewish children hiding in and around Brussels for safekeeping in Switzerland.

[6] In the late summer of 1943, Weidner and Chait expanded the escape line to reach as far north as the occupied Netherlands and as far south as Spain.

Weidner, Chait and another Belgian refugee named Jacques Rens acted as leaders of this expanded network, known as Dutch-Paris.

They established bases for the escape line in Brussels, Paris and Toulouse by joining forces with local resisters who were already doing rescue work in those cities.

[12] He also oversaw the escape line's work in Toulouse and the Pyrenees to get Allied aviators into Spain, including negotiating with local guides and finding hiding places when snow temporarily closed the passes in the mountains.

[13] Because he knew so much and carried such incriminating documents, Chait created his own network of safe houses and routes that was separate from those used for the fugitives.

[14] This separate web of safehouses allowed Chait to avoid arrest when the German authorities started rounding up many Dutch-Paris resisters who worked on the aviator escape line in February 1944.

After Weidner and Rens escaped from the Milice (French paramilitary collaborators) prison in Toulouse in May 1944, for example, Chait orchestrated their disappearance from the city and evasion of the police manhunt.

[17] Chait's illegal rescue work ended when the Liberation of Belgium in September 1944 made Dutch-Paris unnecessary.