RNDr., CSc. Milan Práger

“But my father had Jewish ancestry so for of financial and other reasons, I don't know much about it, my parents divorced formally. My mother died when I was twelve. My father had already gone to Terezín half a year prior to that and at the end of 1944 he went from Terezín to Auschwitz and the traces end there. I was taken care of, I lived with my mother's parents.”

“It was after that, at the beginning of 1941 Professor Pavelka announced that Scouting activities were going to continue, obviously without all the fancy Scout things, no uniforms or anything like that. And we started to meet up, I don't know, there were maybe three of us from that first year, maybe there was a fourth person, at the parish premises in Podskalí. We would go there once a week. We had the usual Scout meetings with lectures on Scout Law. Mainly we played Scout games, I always loved that. We would go on trips. There was always a trip outside of Prague on Saturdays or Sundays.”