Dina Babbitt

Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (January 21, 1923, Brno, Czechoslovakia – July 29, 2009) was an artist and Holocaust survivor. A U.S. citizen, she resided in Santa Cruz, California. As 'Dina Gottliebova, she was imprisoned in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp during WWII, where she drew portraits of Romani inmates for the infamous Dr. Mengele. Following the liberation of the camp and the end of the war she emigrated to the United States and became an animator. She had been fighting the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for the return of her paintings. In 1944, while in Auschwitz Concentration Camp, she was chosen by Josef Mengele to draw portraits of Romani inmates. Mengele wished to capture the Romanis' skin coloration better than he could do it...