About Jenny de la Torre Castro
Lived 1954 – 2025 (aged 70–71). Jenny de la Torre Castro was a German and Peruvian surgeon, human rights defender, physician and donor.
Jenny de la Torre Castro (1954 – June 10, 2025) was a German-Peruvian physician. She founded the Jenny de la Torre Foundation (Jenny De la Torre Stiftung) to serve homeless people in Berlin.
Life and career Jenny de la Torre Castro grew up in Nazca, Peru. In 1973, she began her medical studies at the San Luis Gonzaga National University in Ica. A year later she obtained a scholarship to continue medical studies in the German Democratic Republic.
In 1992 and 1993, she led a project for pregnant women who were in conditions of poverty.
Torre Castro died on June 10, 2025, at the age of 71.
Awards 1997 Bundesverdienstkreuz: (Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
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Who was Jenny de la Torre Castro?
German surgeon
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Jenny de la Torre Castro was born in 1954 in Nazca.
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Jenny de la Torre Castro died on 10 June 2025 in Berlin.
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Jenny de la Torre Castro was a surgeon, human rights defender, physician and donor.
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Jenny de la Torre Castro was German and Peruvian.
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