Jakob Rosenfeld
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Jakob Rosenfeld (1903-1952), more commonly known as General Luo, served as the Minister of Health in the Government of China under Mao Zedong.[1]
Rosenfeld, a Jew, was born in Lviv, Ukraine (in Polish Lwów) and raised in Wöllersdorf near Wiener Neustadt. He studied and graduated in general medicine from Vienna University. After the Anschluss, Rosenfeld was deported to Dachau concentration camp and later to Buchenwald. In 1939 he was released and had to leave the country within two weeks. Since China did not require Jews to apply for a visa, he fled to Shanghai. Since 1941 he served the Chinese Communist force as a field doctor for the New Fourth Army, the Eighth Route Army and the Northeast People's Liberation Army during the outbreak of Second Sino-Japanese war and Chinese civil war.partial info taken from here
