Johanna Geissmar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johanna Geissmar

German pediatrician

Date of Birth: 07-Dec-1877

Place of Birth: Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Aug-1942

Profession: pediatrician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.