Johanna Geissmar | |
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![]() Geissmar aged 19, photography from Conrad Ruf | |
Born | Johanna Elsa Geissmar 7 December 1877 Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
Died | 14 August 1942 |
Nationality | Jewish |
Education | Abitur |
Occupation | Pediatrician |
Johanna Elsa Geissmar (7 December 1877 in Mannheim – 14 August 1942 at Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German-Jewish pediatrician murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. She was called Angel in Hell by the patients she helped during her stay in Gurs internment camp from October 1940 to August 1942.