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Lita: A Survivor’s Life in Images at Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque

— Spencer Fordin

The photos speak of a harrowing flight from atrocity that ended safely in Santa Fe. And the inscriptions deliver an imagined testimony from beyond the grave. Lita: A Survivor’s Life in Images takes you inside the family photo album of Carl and Lita Blake, who escaped Vienna in 1938 just before the onset of World War II. The album was donated to the New Mexico Holocaust Museum by the couple’s daughter, the late Yara Pitchford, who died in 2021. Lita Blake lived to the age of 104, and Lena Keslin, a longtime friend and local artist, has added brief handwritten captions to the photos designed to evoke her memories of the times Blake lived through. A reception for the exhibition, presented in conjunction with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, takes place at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5. Lita runs through Feb. 15. Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque, 5520 Wyoming Blvd. NE, 505-332-0565, nmholocaustmuseum.org.

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