Letter from Ghita Hojtasova in the hospital to her mother
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Gift of Milton and Gita Kaufman and Howard and Sue Pinsky
Id no. 1832.91, Correspondence, Czech
Created by:  Ghita Hojtasova
Subject(s):  Food, Health, Children
Ghita was hospitalized with scarlet fever during her internment in the Terezin ghetto. In the letter she tells her mother Gertrude what she ate, what her temperature was, and how she felt on November 23, 24, and 25, 1945.

Gita was born to Gertrude and Emil Hojtas in 1932. Her sister Zuzana was born in 1935 and the family lived in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Emil emigrated before Germany invaded in 1939, but he was unable to take the rest of the family with him.

Gertrude, Gita, and Zuzana were deported to Terezin in 1942. Despite the harsh conditions there, they survived and were reunited with Emil in Czechoslovakia. The family immigrated to the US in 1948.
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