Joan Stiebel

Joan Valentine Stiebel MBE (23 April 1911 – 25 January 2007) was a relief worker in England, from before the Second World War.

[1] The daughter of Christian parents, Ernest Arthur Stiebel and Valentine Evelyn Mary Amelia Pender, she became increasingly active in Jewish affairs after becoming a secretary to Otto Schiff, in 1933.

[2] In 1939, after Schiff and others had formed what today is called World Jewish Relief, Stiebel was appointed to that organisation full-time.

[3] After the end of World War II, Stiebel was responsible for making travel arrangements to bring 1,000 underaged Jewish Nazi concentration camp orphans to the United Kingdom.

[1][4] After retiring from World Jewish Relief in 1979, she was recruited by the Wiener Library to assist in establishing their Endowment Fund.