Karel Škarka while being appointed as Mayor of Ústí nad Orlicí

Karel Škarka and other mayors accepted an invitation to Prague Castle during the term of office of President Václav Havel

Karel Škarka with General František Fajtl after 2000

Karel Škarka meeting with Josef Lux

Karel Škarka meets Marina Dollorelo, with whose family his father stayed during the crossing to neutral Switzerland

Marina Dollorelo shows Karel Škarka how the partisans travelled in the difficult Alpine terrain

The municipal library building in the Italian village of Premossello, which served as a school during World War II and where Karel Škarka's father stayed

Karel Škarka and his son Ondrej trying to trace the path Karel Škarka Sr. took to Switzerland

The publication of Karel Škarka's book The Czechoslovak Password. Dominik Duka standing in the middle (his father was also a member of the Allied army and persecuted by the communists after the war). On the left standing Karel Škarka with his wife Marta. On the right son Ondřej with his wife and grandchildren

Book launch of the Password: Czechoslovak in Ústí nad Orlicí

Karel Škarka during a lecture at the Institute of the Memory of Nations in Pardubice in 2026