Antonín Holub (1920)

The oldest Scout living in Slaný

Antonín Holub was born June 13, 1920 in the family of tailor Václav Holub. His mother died when he was two years old. Until his father remarried, his mother's cousin, Mrs. Macáková, had been helping with taking care of Antonín. Through a newspaper advertisement, Václav Holub met Mrs. Havlíčková. She worked as a housekeeper for the music composer and conductor Rudolf Piskáček in Prague. When she visited the Holub family for the first time, she immediately fell in love with little Antonín and she married his father. Antonín learnt about the fact that she was not his biological mother only when he grew up and applied for his identity card. Mrs. Havlíčková gave birth to his younger half-brother Václav, who already passed away. Antonín joined of the Boy Scout troop in Slaný immediately after its formation, later he became its leader, and at present he is the oldest Scout living in Slaný. He met his wife Vlasta, née Hrabáková in the Scout organization where she serve ... 

The first tent camp of the Boy Scouts from Slaný