The youth organization Junák has its roots in 1911, in Austria-Hungary. The name Junák began to be used in 1914, but Professor A. B. Svojsík started working with young people as early as 1911 and was entirely based on the ideas and ideal of the founder of Scouting, Sir Baden-Powel. In the post-revolutionary period of 1918 it was the young Junaks who, together with the Sokol, ensured the peaceful course of the seizure of power, but also actively worked in the auxiliary services of the newly established Czechoslovak army, which was entering the fighting on the border with Poland and in the battles against the Bolsheviks in Slovakia. During the Protectorate, the young Junaks did not betray their ideals. In the Czechoslovak army on all fronts we could find brave soldiers who passed through the school of Junák, their bravery was highly praised by their commanders Gen. Ludvík Svoboda, Gen. Karel Klapálek, Gen. Sergej Ingr and others. It was the Germans who banned this organization in 1940. The functionaries of Junák, but also young people, found themselves in concentration camps. Many gave their lives for their country.