Jakob Rosenfeld

Jakob Rosenfeld (January 11, 1903 – April 22, 1952), known in China as General Luo or Luo Shengte, was a Holocaust survivor and urologist who fled to Shanghai, China due to the repression he faced in Austria, which had been annexed by Nazi Germany.

Rosenfeld was born to a Jewish family in Lemberg, the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Lviv, Ukraine) in 1903.

[1][2][3] Albeit a Jewish family, the Rosenfelds were not strictly religious and had to cease following kosher dietary rules during the hardship of World War I, without returning to them afterward.

[8][1][9][4] Rosenfeld acted as a surgeon for injured soldiers, often performing surgery in a small boat.

[13] He chose to remain in China after the fall of the Nazi regime and participated in the People's Liberation Army's march on Beijing before returning in November 1949 to Europe to search for relatives, most of whom had perished in the Holocaust.

[5] In 1950, after unsuccessfully attempting to return to China, he emigrated to Israel and was reunited with his younger brother Joseph.

In Junan County there is also an exhibition hall called the Deeds of International Fighter Rosenfeld.

[6][7] In 2006 a large exhibit was mounted in Beijing's National Museum of China in tribute to him.

The museum exhibit in his honor was inaugurated by Chinese President Hu Jintao.

[12][15] A bronze memorial (from 1993) at the entrance of Unfallkrankenhaus (UKH) hospital in Graz, Austria depicts Rosenfeld.