She demanded a reassessment of "all generalizations and gender-neutral statements about survival, resistance and maintenance or collapse of moral values, and the dysfunction of culture in the camps and ghettos" from the perspective of women.

She argued that the ways that women "constructed survival strategies and meaningful choices in varying conditions of powerlessness" needed to be considered.

[4][5][6] As a result, Ringelheim gathered a large amount of scholarly material which became part of her collection of interviews, photos and other documentation.

[8] As Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at New York University Marion Kaplan recalled, the conference was the first large-scale initiative into feminist study of women's experience.

[11] In 2000 she was credited as Program Producer of the book, Voices from Auschwitz, when it was published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.