The Free Republic of Tortuga
The dream of every group of little children is to have their own clubhouse. In the town of Nymburk, there was a little group of Scouts during the war years united around Oskar, whose true name was Otokar Randák. Their dream of a clubhouse came true. This little group of twelve Scouts could use a small room for their meetings. Originally that room was designated for a housemaid. It was situated in the villa of the Ruml family. The parents of Karel Ruml – one of the Scouts nicknamed Sergej – offered the Scouts from the Club of the Young Announcer a shelter in the course of World War II. At that time, they did not know that their villa was about to become The Free Republic of Tortuga. Oskar recalls: “We loved adventurous novels about pirates and buccaneers. We were attracted by water - the more so because we have the Elbe River in Nymburk. We were intrigued that the pirates seized an island in the Caribbean Sea and called it ‘The Free republic of Tortuga.’ Therefore we founded our own Tortuga in Nymburk.” After Scouting was prohibited and a part of the Ruml family went into exile, the villa fell into disrepair. It served as living quarters for socially disadvantaged citizens. In the beginning of the 1990s, Eva and Karel Ruml got their villa back in the course of the process of property restitution. They donated it to the Scouts again. The Scouts repaired it and they have been using it and taking care of it until today.
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