[1][3][4] Their son Jan Carel spent the war years in Friesland, while Zadoks-Josephus Jitta herself worked at the Colonial Institute of Amsterdam.

[3] Her unusual name inspired Dutch journalist Theo Toebosch to research the Josephus Jitta family after seeing it on the cover of her book Antieke cultuur in beeld as a schoolboy many years earlier.

[1] Whilst taking his degree in classical languages and archaeology in Amsterdam, he remembers seeing Zadoks-Josephus Jitta walking around on campus, invariably accompanied by her dog.

[5] From 1 May 1948 until 1 January 1963, Zadoks-Josephus Jitta worked as part-time conservator of ancient coins and cut gems at the Koninklijk Penningkabinet, then located in The Hague.

Her initial appointment as a lecturer was for a fixed term of five years, in view of her background as an archaeologist and art historian rather than the more traditional foundation of classical philology.