page_title: Johanna Geissmar
section_title: Remembrance
hierarchical_section_title: Johanna Geissmar / Remembrance
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Stolperstein für Dr. Johanna Geissmar
context_page_description: Johanna Elsa Geissmar 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.
context_section_description: A commemorative plaque for Johanna Geissmar can be found on the building Hochfirstweg 25 in Lenzkirch-Saig where she once lived. Its inauguration took place on 30 May 2004.
  The ZDF film Angel in Hell by Dietmar Schulz premiered on 31 January 2009. It is based entirely on the fate of Johanna Geissmar.
  In 2013 the school conference of the Peter Petersen Gymnasium in Mannheim-Schönau, a high school, decided to rename the school with her name.
  Since 2014 a Stolperstein in front of the House Moltkestrasse 6 in Heidelberg serves as a memorial of Johanna Geissmar.
caption: Stolperstein for Johanna Geissmar in Heidelberg
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