Like Karel Borský, Jindřich Scheck was arrested on 27 June 1940. After a short imprisonment, he was deported to a Soviet concentration camp called Volgolag.
In 1942, as a Czechoslovak citizen, he registered for the emerging Czechoslovak army, which was his only chance of release from the camp. At that time, he listed the town of Jangi-Jul in the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan as his place of residence.
After that, all news about him ceased, and he did not live to see the end of the war. In 1998, the prosecutor's office of the Lviv region of independent Ukraine acquitted him of all charges and declared him an innocent victim of Soviet repression.
A document from an NKVD file kept on Jindřich Scheck states that he was kept in the Volgolag gulag.
The children of Ze'ev and Pavla first learned of their uncle's fate thanks to the discovery of this file.
Access to the NKVD documents was made possible by the work of the "Czechoslovaks in the Gulag" project team. More information can be found at: https://archivkgb.zcu.cz/en/about