The patriarch Pesach, or Pavel Scheck in Czech, was arrested by the Nazis in September 1939, shortly after the outbreak of war, as part of Action A.
He was murdered on 18 July 1940 in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Three months later, his family in Olomouc received an urn with his ashes, which was placed in a wooden coffin and buried at the Jewish cemetery.
Civilian portrait of Pesach Scheck