Arthur Arndt

Arthur Arndt, M.D. (August 20, 1893 – January 13, 1974) was a German physician who went into hiding with his family in Berlin during the Holocaust. Arndt and his family received help from dozens of non-Jewish Germans, four of whom received the title Righteous Among the Nations in 1988. Barbara Lovenheim's book Survival in the Shadows: Seven Jews Hidden in Hitler’s Berlin tells the story of the physician's family and extended family as they hid during World War II. the son of Philip and Johanna Arndt, who were Orthodox Jews. His father was a glazier. Arndt grew up in the seaside resort town of Kolberg (Kołobrzeg), Germany.

Arndt studied medicine at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat in Berlin beginning in 1913, which prepared him to be a medic during World War I. He continued to care for soldiers after the war's end on November 11, 1918. He stayed in France and worked at a field hospital. Arndt received the Iron Cross for his military service. After World War I, he interned at Charité, a hospital in Berlin, and in 1921 married Lina Arnoldi, the daughter of a kosher butcher and Bertha Arnoldi.

Arndt had a medical practice in Berlin, serving non-Jews and Jewish people.

World War II Systematic antisemitism A series of antisemitic laws, called Nuremberg Laws, were enacted beginning in 1935. Erich heard that Jewish slave laborers were about to be sent to Auschwitz concentration camp by Joseph Goebbels. He talked to some of his patients and found out that Max Kohler and the couple Auguste and Max were very willing to help them. Erich worked as a journeyman during the days and spent the nights in the factory. Later, he also hired and sheltered Erich's friend, Bruno Gumpel (whose parents were sent to Auschwitz). The Kohlers, whose factory was in Kreuzberg and within from Hitler's bunker, said of the time "If the Germans are going to kill me for hiding one Jew, they might as well kill me for hiding six Jews." Arthur Arndt's extended family worked covertly as laborers and domestic servants having arrived on the SS Marine Marlin on December 20, 1946. In 1950, Arndt was working as a physician in a New York City hospital. Arthur died on January 13, 1974.

The two Arndt adult children and their spouses, as well as Charlotte Lewinsky, arrived in the United States on May 20, 1946, aboard the SS Marine Flasher, which was the first ship of Jewish refugees to arrive in the United States in May 1946. Ruth married Bruno Gumpel and lived in California.

Karl and Auguste Gehre, as well as Gustav and Anni Schulz, received the title Righteous Among the Nations in 1988.