A new generation

Pesach's son Zeev Scheck was one of the leading figures of the pre-war Zionist youth movement in Olomouc.

Read how he understood the situation during the Second Republic:

A word to the Jewish youth Zeev Scheck


Today, when times have confronted us with many bitter realities, we stand at last once again as one unit, and each of us "knows", "recognizes", "sees" what will be. We are not of those who think it is possible to save ourselves by jumping from the deck into the waters of baptismal. We know that an individual's lone struggle in the waters can have only one result: drowning, especially if the waters are as rough and rough as they are today. So we decided to stay on board, knowing that more than one ship has been saved by the combined efforts of the crew.

Every ship will reach the harbour. We too will find our port, though we cannot say exactly when. But it must be clear to us that it is not the fate of this or that family that is at stake, but the fate of the great national whole. To put it bluntly: it is a question of steering our ship at last to one great port. For we do not know how long the ports that are safe today will be safe for the future. Our harbor will always be Eretz Israel, without a doubt.

Thousands of refugees escaped from the occupied territories. We give them what we can, free medicine, food. But we young people must ask ourselves at this point: Can we allow ourselves to only observe? Should we wait until we, too, need help? The Jewish youth must finally wake up and in many cases come to terms with its own past. Many of the older ones are falling into old mistakes. They think they have escaped a common fate when they were given a visum, somewhere in Bolivia. They forget that in doing so they will confront their children again in a few decades with the question: where do they go? And it is up to us young people to say clearly and openly: we have had enough of these half-baked and problematic solutions, we want to help ourselves in one country, our country, in Eretz Israel. This is no longer propaganda, but a necessity. Look at the young people who have decided to take this path. They are different people than the Jewish youth who, not long ago, saw their life's goal in a visit to the five o'clock tea parties. These are people raised in one community and one faith - a belief in a better future for the Jewish people.A word to the Jewish youth
Zeev Scheck


Today, when times have confronted us with many bitter realities, we stand at last once again as one unit, and each of us "knows", "recognizes", "sees" what will be. We are not of those who think it is possible to save ourselves by jumping from the deck into the waters of baptismal. We know that an individual's lone struggle in the waters can have only one result: drowning, especially if the waters are as rough and rough as they are today. So we decided to stay on board, knowing that more than one ship has been saved by the combined efforts of the crew.

Every ship will reach the harbour. We too will find our port, though we cannot say exactly when. But it must be clear to us that it is not the fate of this or that family that is at stake, but the fate of the great national whole. To put it bluntly: it is a question of steering our ship at last to one great port. For we do not know how long the ports that are safe today will be safe for the future. Our harbor will always be Eretz Israel, without a doubt.

Thousands of refugees escaped from the occupied territories. We give them what we can, free medicine, food. But we young people must ask ourselves at this point: Can we allow ourselves to only observe? Should we wait until we, too, need help? The Jewish youth must finally wake up and in many cases come to terms with its own past. Many of the older ones are falling into old mistakes. They think they have escaped a common fate when they were given a visum, somewhere in Bolivia. They forget that in doing so they will confront their children again in a few decades with the question: where do they go? And it is up to us young people to say clearly and openly: we have had enough of these half-baked and problematic solutions, we want to help ourselves in one country, our country, in Eretz Israel. This is no longer propaganda, but a necessity. Look at the young people who have decided to take this path. They are different people than the Jewish youth who, not long ago, saw their life's goal in a visit to the five o'clock tea parties. These are people raised in one community and one faith - a belief in a better future for the Jewish people.