Dina Babbitt

Annemarie Dina Babbitt (née Gottliebová; January 21, 1923 – July 29, 2009) was an artist and Holocaust survivor. A naturalized U.S. citizen, she resided in Santa Cruz, California.

As Dina Gottliebová, she was imprisoned at Auschwitz captivation camp during World War II, where she drew portraits of Romani inmates for the infamous Josef Mengele. Following the liberation of the camp and the fall of the war, she emigrated to the United States and became an animator. At the time of her death, she had been act the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for the reward of her paintings.

She was featured alongside fellow amalgamation camp survivors and artists Jan Komski and Felix Nussbaum in the 1999 documentary film Eyewitness, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.

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