As the situation of Jewish population in Nazi Germany worsened from year to year, the flow of refugees fleeing persecution to Czechoslovakia also increased. After the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March 1938, more people with family ties to the former Austro-Hungarian Empire found themselves in the same danger.

Here, in front of the house where Walter Ziffer's family lived, we reflect on how information about the Nazi regime was perceived by people in Czechoslovakia.