Stop 1: The city of Český Těšín

Chapter 1: The divided city

Chapter 2: Memories of Witnesses

Chapter 3: Brief Biographies of the Witnesses

Chapter 4: The new border

Chapter 5: Question:

Chapter 6: Question:

Stop 1: Completed

Stop 2: The old synagogue

Chapter 1: Testimony of Walter Ziffer

Chapter 2: Testimony of Salomon Luftig

Chapter 3: Question:

Chapter 4: Brief biography of Salomon Luftig

Chapter 5: The lost Jewish world of Teschen Silesia

Stop 2: Completed

Stop 3: Refugees

Chapter 1: Memories of Walter Ziffer

Chapter 2: Question:

Chapter 3: Second question:

Stop 3: Completed

Stop 4: The Community synagogue

Chapter 1: The Void

Chapter 2: Memories of Witnesses

Chapter 3: Brief biography of Sali Templer

Chapter 4: Who are the Zionists?

Chapter 5: Roll call of Maccabi Hatzair in Český Těšín, 1936

Stop 4: Completed

Stop 5: A Polish city

Chapter 1: In Poland

Chapter 2: Testimony of Henry Heitlinger

Stop 5: Completed

Stop 6: The German occupation

Chapter 1: The First Day of War

Chapter 2: Question:

Chapter 3: Marking all the Jews

Chapter 4: Isolation and social exclusion of Jews

Chapter 5: Liquidation of the living and of the dead

Stop 6: Completed

Stop 7: Ghettos and deportations

Chapter 1: Memories of Marianne Lavan

Chapter 2: Brief Biography of Marianne Lavan

Stop 7: Completed

Stop 8: Return home

Chapter 1: The new synagogue of the "Shomre Shabos" Association

Chapter 2: Memories of post-WWII Český Těšín

Chapter 3: Brief Biographies of the Witnesses

Chapter 4: Restoration of the Jewish Community

Chapter 5: Testimony of Walter Ziffer

Chapter 6: The synagogue as a unique monument

Stop 8: Completed

Stop 9: Memory and remembering

Chapter 1: Survivor testimony

Chapter 2: Postwar fates

Chapter 3: Brief Biographies of the Witnesses

Chapter 4: The Avion Café

Chapter 5: The Těšín Stolperstein

Chapter 6: Fate of the owner of the Avion Coffeehouse

Chapter 7: Like a Phoenix from the ashes

Chapter 8: The last question:

Stop 9: Completed

Exploring the traces of Jewish Český Těšín

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The new border

Czechoslovak-Polish border in Těšín, 1928.

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