Selected records from the Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross

Identifier
irn501984
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.A.0085
  • RG-58.004M
Dates
1 Jan 1921 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
  • German
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501984

Extent and Medium

116.775 digital images, JPEG

1 microfilm reel, 16 mm

Creator(s)

  • Fabrizio Bensi

Biographical History

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland and a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signatories) to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 (Protocol I, Protocol II) and 2005 have given the ICRC a mandate to protect victims of international and internal armed conflicts. Such victims include war wounded, prisoners, refugees, civilians, and other non-combatants. The ICRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement along with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and 190 National Societies. It is the oldest and most honored organization within the Movement and one of the most widely recognized organizations in the world, having won three Nobel Peace Prizes in 1917, 1944, and 1963.

Archival History

International Committee of the Red Cross

Acquisition

Records created by the International Committee of the Red Cross (IRO) in the course of carrying out its operations relating to refugees and displaced persons, hostages and political detainees, and the expulsion of Jews in Europe and elsewhere. Source of acquisition is the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comite International de la Croix-Rouge), Geneva. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in 1998, and accretion in 2021.

Scope and Content

Contains documents created and collected by the International Committee of the Red Cross including correspondence related to stateless individuals, information on discriminatory and expulsion measures in Bavaria, and materials related to the development and administration of the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic. Microfilm reel: CR 163; Heimatlose (Stateless persons); CR 123; Jewish expulsions, 1923-1939. 2 files; CR 110; Hostages and Political Prisoners. 1921-1945; Accretion 2021, digital component consists of following records: B G 017-Prisoner files. Reports, and correspondence; C G2 DP-Displaced persons files. Lists, correspondence and reports; C G2 FD-Documentation on internees. Correspondence, reports, statistics, instructions and notes; C G2 PA; Individual files of German prisoners of war interned in the United Kingdom and files of international prisoners. Name lists and correspondence; G 7; G 25; G 37; G 40; G 48; G 60; G 65; G 67; G 69-Files on Jewish infants; G 86 and 98-Files on dispersed families, Germany 1939-1950; O CMS-Correspondence with American Friends Service Committee and Unitarian Service, world Jewish Congress and other organizations. Reports.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: International Committee of the Red Cross

Corporate Bodies

  • International Tracing Service
  • International Committee of the Red Cross
  • League of Nations
  • Red Cross and Red Crescent
  • American Friends Service Committee
  • Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief.
  • Humanitarian assistance--Switzerland--History--20th century.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust--Europe.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.
  • Germany--History--20th century.
  • Europe--History--German occupation, 1939-1945.
  • Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe--History.
  • Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945 .
  • Switzerland--Politics and government--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
  • International agencies--History--20th century.
  • France--Politics and government--1940-1945.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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