A Lithuanian-born artist known for incorporating the Holocaust into his work died in New York. Arbit Blatas, whose black-and-white drawings introduced segments of the 1978 television miniseries “The Holocaust,” was 90. Blatas fled the Nazis in 1941 and his father survived, but his mother died in a concentration camp.
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