Ruth Jacobsen (8 April 1932 - 19 February 2019) was a German-born lesbian artist and a Hidden Child of the Holocaust.

Working as the first female film projectionist in New York, she helped create a training program for women entering that profession.

Jacobsen increasingly devoted her time to art using family letters and photographs in order to cope with her childhood traumas.

Faced with the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis, the family fled to the Netherlands in 1939, settling in the village of Oud-Zuilen.

In 1942, relying on the assistance of the Dutch resistance, they were forced into hiding but two months later Ruth Jacobsen was hidden away from her parents in various Christian families.