Pesach's son Heinrich Scheck, called Heini, Jindřich or by his Hebrew name Josef Chaim, was arrested by the Gestapo in Brno in the autumn of 1939. After a short imprisonment at Špilberk, he was deported to the camp in Nisko on 23 October 1939, in the first ever deportation transport.
On 2 November, German camp guards drove some of the prisoners towards the eastern part of Poland, occupied by the Soviet Union. By shooting, the prisoners were forced to cross the border river; on the other side they were immediately arrested by Soviet soldiers. Heini was arrested and taken to a prison in the town of Sinjava, after his release he settled among thousands of Czechoslovak refugees in Lviv.
A trained furrier, he earned his living as a blacksmith in a Soviet enterprise called Derzhsortfond. A love letter from home, seized during his subsequent arrest, was preserved in a file kept on him by the Soviet secret police.
How is this love letter different from the love letters people write to each other today?