After a determined struggle against a rare form of cancer, Dina Gottliebova Babbitt left us on July 29, 2009. She did not “go gentle into that good night.” Embroiled in an attempt to get her artwork ...

Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, 86, an artist who was forced to paint portraits of fellow prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp and later sought to recover the artworks from a museum there, died of ...

FELTON, Calif. -- -- FELTON, Calif. -- Dina Babbitt once made a deal with Joseph Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor who subjected concentration-camp prisoners to horrendous medical experiments. He ...

Babbitt rejected a suggestion that the museum lend the art to her for the remainder of her life; she said she wanted ownership and the right to hang the works in an American museum. "She wanted all or ...