Dina has fought, to no avail, a 20-year struggle through official channels to get her paintings back, and has asked Congresswoman Berkley to help her. Now 76 years old, Dina Babbitt would like to bestow the watercolors to her family and put them on display in the United States, the country she now calls home. Currently, the portraits are hidden from the general public’s view in the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum. Congresswoman Berkley’s Congressional resolution asks President Clinton and the government of Poland to work together to help Dina Babbitt retrieve her paintings . 

“Dina Babbitt is a heroine who saved not only her mother’s life, but the lives of the family that now exists because of her courage,” said Congresswoman Berkley.  “To deny her what is rightfully and morally hers is to add to the pain and suffering she endured at Auschwitz.  Her children and our children need to see these paintings to understand the individual horror of the Holocaust, for victims and survivors alike.”

The resolution “...recognizes the moral right of Dina Babbitt to obtain the artwork she created and recognizes her courage in the face of the evils perpetuated by the Nazi command of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, including the atrocities committed by Dr. Josef Mengele”, and it “...urges the President to make immediate diplomatic efforts to facilitate the transfer of the seven original watercolors painted by Dina Babbitt from the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum to Dina Babbitt, the rightful owner.”

Dina’s daughter Michelle Kane and her family live in Las Vegas, while Dina herself resides in Santa Cruz, California.