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Johanna Geissmar
1877–1942
- Nationality
- German Reich
- Occupation
- pediatrician
Johanna Elsa Geissmar (7 December 1877 in Mannheim â 14 August 1942 at Auschwitz concentration camp) was a German-Jewish pediatrician murdered by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
- Gurs internment campDates unknown
- Zigeunerlager AuschwitzDates unknown
Biography
Johanna Elsa Geissmar (7 December 1877 in Mannheim â 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.
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