Jacob Rosenfeld

Born in Lemberg, the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Lviv, Ukraine), was raised in Wöllersdorf near Wiener Neustadt. He was graduated in medicine with a specialization in urology 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 the Shanghai ghetto.

From 1941 during the outbreak of Second Sino-Japanese war, he served in the Chinese Army as a field doctor. He was the Medical Consultant for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th divisions of N4A. 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 1949 to Europe to search for relatives, most of whom had perished in the Holocaust.He reunited with his sister in Austria in 1949. In 1950, after unsuccessfully attempting to return to China, he immigrated to Israel and was reunited with his brother. He died two years later after suffering heart failure.China has erected a statue in his honour, a hospital in Junan County, Shandong was named after him, and 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.A bronze memorial at the entrance of Unfallkrankenhaus (UKH) hospital in Graz, Austria depicts Rosenfeld.