Most of the Jews from Český Těšín perished in Nazi concentration and death camps.

Majority of survivors were people who managed to escape through Poland to the Polish territory occupied by the Soviet Union in 1939. There they were usually rounded up as spies and deported to the Gulags, Soviet forced labour camps far from the future front line. Some of them survived the hell of Soviet camps and joined the Czechoslovak troops, the so-called Svoboda Army. Those who did not fall in the battles of Sokolovo or Dukla eventually made it home. After the war, 53 Jewish people returned to Český Těšín.

In front of the only preserved synagogue building in the town, we will reflect on how they experienced their return home.