Victor Aronstein (1 November 1896 – 13 January 1945) was a
German-Jewish
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medical doctor whose practice in
Alt-Hohenschönhausen
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,
Berlin
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served as a meeting place for
communists
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and
social democrats
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during the rule of the
Nazi Party
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. He was deported to the
Łódź Ghetto
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in 1941 and then moved to
Auschwitz
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, where he was murdered in 1945.
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Victor Aronstein
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1896 births
1945 deaths
People from Margonin
Łódź Ghetto inmates
Physicians from Berlin
German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
Jewish physicians
German Jews who died in the Holocaust
20th-century German physicians
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