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- 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.
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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.
- Recruitment in Wartime Shanghai
- The Huazhong Medical School
- Turning to The Jewish State
- Mao’s Jews
During his time in China Rosenfeld maintained minimal interactions with the established Jewish community. “As far as I know, there were no connection between Dr. Rosenfeld and the Jewish communities in China,” says Yossi Klein, chairman of the Association of Former China Residents. In the 1950s, the association was responsible for helping Jews from...
The New Fourth Army had a severe shortage of medical personnel, so Rosenfeld created the Huazhong Medical School. The first class was comprised of 50 students, according to the Chinese book “You and Us,” which tells Rosenfeld’s story. The Jewish doctor provided lecture courses there, physical dissections, experience with internal medicine and surge...
When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) marched through Beijing and established it as a capital of the new People’s Republic of China in 1949, Rosenfeld was there. But his Chinese adventure would soon come to an end. By November 1949, Rosenfeld had returned to Austria to seek the remnants of his family not killed in the Holocaust. He found a younger...
Rosenfeld isn’t the only one of his kind — more than a handful of Jews played roles the rise in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and are largely neglected by history. “[M]any of the foreigners who went to China and worked with either the CCP or the left wing of the [Chinese Nationalist Party] were Jewish,” says Grunfeld. Hans Müller, a German ...
But Luo Shengte (Chinese for big nose) was the nickname given to Dr. Jakob Rosenfeld, a Jewish Austrian physician who volunteered for the People’s Liberation Army in China in the 1940’s. In no way was it intended to be derogatory – on the contrary.
- Dana Kessler
Rosenfeld, Jakob (1903-1952) Physician, general in the Chinese army. Jakob Rosenfeld was born in Lemberg (now Lviv, in the Ukraine), the son of an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army.
Jan 26, 2018 · Jakob Rosenfeld, also called General Luo, was born in Lemberg, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is today’s Lviv, Ukraine from a wealthy middle class Jewish family. He earned his degree...
Jakob Rosenfeld (1903-1952), more commonly known as General Luo, served as the Minister of Health in the 1947 Provisional Communist Military Government of China under Mao Zedong. Rosenfeld, a Jew born in Lemberg, the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Lviv, Ukraine), was raised in Wöllersdorf near Wiener Neustadt.
Nov 7, 2016 · Few remained, including Jakob Rosenfeld, a doctor who joined Mao's army and rose through the ranks. He even served as the first Minister of Health in Mao's government. The Chinese know him as "General Luo".
