Except for Ze'ev, who survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp and other camps, and his half-sister, Paula, who was deported to the ghetto in Lodz, Poland, in 1941, none of the family survived the war.
Rachel, the mother, was deported from Terezín to her death on one of the last transports sent out. Sister Anna, called Ani, was living in Bratislava and nine months pregnant when she was murdered. Brother Leo was married and had a three-year-old son, after his deportation to Poland he was imprisoned in the Plazsow concentration camp, from which he was deported to Mauthausen, dying in the Gusen camp at the very end of the war. His wife Rozalie and their three-year-old son Igo were deported to Terezín, Igo died of scarlet fever in Terezín after three months, Rozalie was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp after another three months. Abraham Scheck was murdered in Dachau.
Family photo: Heinrich called Heini, Hebrew name Joseph Chaim Scheck, Rachel Scheck and Patriarch Pesach Scheck, 1938.
How are the Schecks remembered on the location today?