Overview
- Interview Summary
- Dina Babbitt (née Gottliebova) describes her experiences as an artist at Auschwitz, where she was forced to paint portraits of Romani prisoners, and her current battles to have the paintings, kept at the Auschwitz State Museum, returned to her.
- Alternate Title
- Justice for Dina
- Interviewee
- Dina Babbitt
- Interviewer
- Dr. David Rapaport
- Date
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interview:
2009 March 05
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Rapaport
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Extent
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1 booklet.
2 DVDs.
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- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use. Material is protected under copyright.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp inmates as artists. Forced labor. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Jewish women artists. Jewish women in the Holocaust. Jews--Persecutions. Romanies. Women concentration camp inmates. World War, 1939-1945--Art and the war. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor. World War, 1939-1945--Reparations. Women--Personal narratives.
- Geographic Name
- Brno (Czech Republic) Oświęcim (Poland)
- Personal Name
- Babbitt, Dina.
- Corporate Name
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Dr. David Rapaport donated his oral history interview with Dina Babbitt to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on June 9, 2009. Dr. Rapaport conducted the interview, which was filmed by Wes Rapaport, at Palo Alto High School on March 5, 2009.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Special Collection
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The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-16 09:17:57
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