An Artist Seeks to Recover Works From Auschwitz: Her Paintings of

Forward, May, 1997

Forward 05-23-1997 An Artist Seeks to Recover Works From Auschwitz: Her Paintings of Gypsies Were Commissioned by Mengele NEW YORK -- Snow White saved Dina Babbitt's life. On the walls of the children's barracks at Auschwitz, Ms. Babbitt, then Dina Gottlieb, painted a scene from the Disney film -- which she had seen over and over in her native Czechoslovakia, until Jews were banned from movie houses -- along with a lush Swiss landscape to cheer up her fellow inmates.

The pictures caught the eye of SS guards, who were soon having her make copies of family snapshots (and gave her extra ...