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Jaromír Kerhart was born on October 3, 1933, into the family of a businessman from Poděbrady. He has a twin brother. Father Jaromír Kerhart was arrested in 1942 for participating in a fundraiser to help families who lost their loved ones in concentration camps or were arrested and imprisoned. He learned of his father‘s death in Auschwitz in February 1943. Before the end of the war, his mother married his father‘s widowed brother. After the war, Jaromír Kerhart studied at a school in Nymburk and later at a grammar school in Poděbrady. He entered the restored Junák and joined the water scouts. After graduation, he was not accepted to the university and had to join glassworks to work a year in a worker‘s profession. Through family acquaintances, he managed to get a degree in electrical engineering at CTU. He devoted his entire life to this field until his retirement in 1998