Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit, a prominent activist for victims of Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship, died Saturday, her organization said. She was 106.

"We only have words of gratitude for her dedication, her solidarity and the love with which she searched for the grandsons and granddaughters until the very end," the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo campaign group said in a statement.

Roisinblit was born in 1919 in Moises Ville, a town of Jewish immigrants in central Argentina, and was an obstetrician by trade.

Alongside other mothers whose family members disappeared during Argentina's dictatorship, Roisinblit demanded to know the whereabouts of her missing relatives.

Her pregnant daughter Patricia Roisinblit and son-in-law -- both militants of the armed Peronist group Montoneros --

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