Dina Gottliebová Babbitt (1923–2009) was a Czech-Jewish artist whose drawing became a survival tool inside Auschwitz. USHMM records her oral history as an artist at Auschwitz who was forced to paint portraits of Romani prisoners for Josef Mengele and later fought to have the paintings returned from the Auschwitz State Museum. The Arolsen Archives and Los Angeles Times describe the grim bargain: her artistic skill helped save her and her mother’s lives, but the portraits were made inside a machinery of racial violence. Obituary records from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and local California papers confirm she died of cancer in 2009 at age 86. Her worth is difficult and exact: she survived by making images under coercion, later rebuilt a creative life in animation, and spent decades insisting that art made by a prisoner under terror still belonged to the person who made it.