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Dr Hannah Hedwig Striesow (1908 - 2009) was an East London GP Born in northern Bavaria in 1909, she first qualified as a doctor in Germany in 1933 during a time of hostile activity by the Nazis. Being Jewish and a socialist, she was not permitted to practise as a doctor in Germany.

In 1936 Dr Striesow moved to England and worked as a nurse at the London Jewish Hospital and then in Surrey. During this time she married Hans Striesow in secret, at a time when nurses and women in other professions were obliged to resign if they got married. She had two sons.

After qualifying as a doctor in the U.K., Dr Striesow set up her practice in Forest Gate, Newham, in 1948, where she worked until she was 81. She did not retire, however, but worked as a locum until the age of 91.

Dr Striesow was a much-loved doctor, working with poor and underprivileged people in the East End for most of her career and always treating her patients with care and affection. She specialised in helping in childbirth and victims of sex crimes, such as rape and incest, working as a police surgeon for 36 years.

Dr Striesow died at the age of 100 in 2009.