Joan Ringelheim

Joan Ringelheim
BornMay 29, 1939
Brooklyn, New York
DiedOctober 22, 2021(2021-10-22) (aged 82)
Columbia, Maryland
OccupationResearch Director
EmployerUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Known forDirected the US oral history archive

Joan Ringelheim (May 29, 1939 – October 22, 2021) was the Research Director of the Permanent Exhibition, Director of Education and Director of Oral History at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she oversaw its survivor testimony collection. She had worked on creating the museum's permanent exhibit. She would donate her collection which came, in part, from her organisation of the first conference about women, during the Holocaust.