Gift of Milton and Gita Kaufman and Howard and Sue Pinsky

Id no. 1321.91, Jewelry

January 01 1942 to April 30 1945, Terezin, Theresienstadt, Bohemia

Subject(s):  Defiance-religious and cultural, Children

This small heart-shaped necklace was made for and given to Ghita Hojtasova (born 1932) in the Terezin Ghetto. The necklace is engraved with the name ?Ghita? and her transport number from Prague, AAL 409. In 1942, she was deported from her home in Prague to the Terezin Ghetto with her sister, Zuzana (age 7), and their mother, Gertrude. They survived the war and were liberated in 1945.