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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 02 > Auschwitz artist Dina Babbitt dies

Auschwitz artist Dina Babbitt dies

By Bruce Weber / The Bulletin
August 2, 2009

Dina Babbitt, who as a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp bartered her services as a painter for her life and her mother's life, died Wednesday in Felton, Calif. She was 86.

The cause was cancer, said her daughter Michele Kane.

Babbitt and her mother were Czechoslovakian Jews sent to....

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