In The Devil's Arithmetic, why didn't Hannah/Chaya have any clothes of her own?

Let us remember what happened to Chaya and why she had to
move to live with Gitl. Her parents both died from a highly contagious disease, which
meant that the doctors orderered all of their belongings to be burnt to ashes to insure
that the disease did not spread. This of course resulted in Chaya being left without
hardly anything to take with her. Thus Chaya has to borrow clothes from Gitl. Note that
she is going to wear one of Gitl's dresses for the wedding, and also note what Gitl
tells Chaya/Hannah and us to help us be aware of what has
happened:

You
will wear the dress I wore as a child for Shmuel's Bar Mitzvah. He was so handsome--and
so nervous. Just like today. It is too bad that your wonderful clothes from Lublin had
to be burned along with your bedding, but the doctors said they carried the disease. As
you arrived just two days ago, there was no time to make anything
else.

This is therefore why
Hannah/Chaya has no clothes of her own and is forced to wear what Gitl provides for
her.