Career
A United States. citizen, she resided in Santa Cruz, California. As Dina Gottliebova, she was imprisoned in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp during World World War II, where she drew portraits of Romani inmates for the infamous Doctor Mengele. Following the liberation of the camp and the end of the war she emigrated to the United States and became an animator.
She had been fighting the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum for the return of her paintings.
She was the second wife of animator Art Babbitt (creator of Goofy). Gottliebova-Babbitt was diagnosed with an aggressive form of abdominal cancer and had surgery on July 23, 2008.
She died on July 29, 2009, aged 86.