Pesach Scheck and his family fled the city of Rzeszów, which Russian troops conquered twice. They settled in Olomouc, where they gradually built a furrier's workshop. They never returned to their old home. In 1917, the mother of the five Pesach children, Chaja, died of Spanish influenza. His second wife Rachel gave birth to his sixth child, Wilhelm, called Zeev, which means wolf in Hebrew, in Olomouc.
Pesach was very religious, while the Jewish community in Olomouc consisted of people for whom strict religious regulations were a thing of the past. But he managed to adapt and raised his children in a modern way with the help of his wife, although he would never enter the Olomouc synagogue, because a women's choir sang there. He began to use the name Pavel, Paul. He loved football and the Holy Land. The only reason he didn't move to what was then Palestine was the climate. He was convinced he couldn't make a living as a furrier in such a warm country. In the census, the family claimed Jewish nationality. They were national Jews, Zionists.
Pesach Scheck in Karlsbad )third from left at the bottom), family archive.