Willi Ahrem (January 1, 1902–June 20, 1967) was a German man who saved Jewish people during World War II.

As a commander, he managed a forced-labor camp Arbeitslager operated by the Todt organization in Nemyriv, Ukraine during World War II.

Before the war, Ewald was a member of the Deutsche Demokratische Partei (German Democratic Party) of the Weimar Republic (1918–1933).

He attended services conducted by Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Munster at that time.

[6] By September of that year, he was reassigned to manage construction work in Ukraine for the Organisation Todt (OT), who reported to through the German military.

[7] As a commander, he managed a forced-labor camp (Arbeitslager) operated by the OT organization in Nemyriv, Ukraine during World War II.

They had been captured by the Nazi army and were sent to the ghetto in Nemyriv and Menczer was sent to the labor camp that Ahrem managed.

Ahrem then took them and a woman Dora Salzmann to Transnistria in his car,[1][8] where they lived in a ghetto in Dzhurin (Dzhuryn), Vinnytsia Oblast.

[1] Ahrem traveled on the pretext of taking business trips through Bucharest, during which he paid bribes to the Romanian police.

[1] Ahrem helped Jewish people by making sure that they had enough food and supplies, concealing them, providing shelter, and moving them across borders.

A Romanian Jewish woman Lisa Heumann also survived the war and she sent a letter to Yad Vashem in 1963 requesting recognition of the man, Willi Ahrem, who helped her.