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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 gentile 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. These seven people are the largest known group of Jews to survive by hiding in Germany.After the war, Arndt and his family moved to the United States. His son and daughter and their spouses arrived on the first ship of Jewish refugees to arrive in the United States in May 1946. Arndt, who arrived with his wife Lina in December 1946, worked in a New York City hospital. In 1997, his daughter Ruth Arndt Gumpel and daughter-in-law Ellen Lewinsky Arndt were interviewed about their experiences during the war by the USC Shoah Foundation.
Arndt was awarded for his service as a medic in World War I with the Iron Cross and The Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918, the latter of which was awarded to him as Nazi Germany was in the process of enacting antisemitic laws in 1935.