Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - I whanau a Margit Eugenia (Gitta) Mallasz i te 1907 i Ljubljana (Laibach) ki roto i te whanau Austro-Hungarian. He rangatira tana papa i te ope taua o Hungary, he Austrian tona whaea. I a ia e taiohi ana i Hungary, i whakahoahoa ia ki a Hanna Dallos i te Academy of Graphic Arts. He kaukau pūmanawa ia, ā, i te tīmatanga o te tekau tau toru tekau, ka riro ia hei toa ā-motu i te kāhua herekore me te whakamuri. I riro i a ia te mētara parahi o te 4 × 100 m relay freestyle i te 1931 European Aquatics Championships
i Parīhi. I mohio hoki ia ki a Lili Strausz, he kaiwhakaako mo te calisthenics, he kaiwhakaako hoki mo te whakahinuhinu. Kaore i roa ka mahi ano a Gitta Mallasz i nga mahi whakairoiro ka uru atu ki a Hanna Dallos i roto i te atelier i whakahaerehia e ia me tana tahu a Joseph Kreutzer. I te wa i kaha ai te anti-Semitism i Budapest, ka riro i te rangatira a Gitta Mallasz te whakahaere arumoni o te atelier mai i a Hanna raua ko Hohepa, he Hurai ano ko Lili Strausz.