Records relating to the activities of the International Red Cross in Terezin
Extent and Medium
folders
3
4 microfiche,
Archival History
International Committee of the Red Cross
Acquisition
The materials were created by the International Committee of the Red Cross in the 1930's and 1940's. The documents were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives by Mary-Lou McCutcheon of the International Social Services Department of the ICRC. Photocopies of the documents and photographs were transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives by Genya Markon.
Scope and Content
Consists of photocopies relating the work of the International Red Cross in the ghetto at Terezin. Among the materials are "white papers" produced by the Red Cross in defense of its activities at Terezin during the Holocaust era. In addition, there are several photocopies of photographs depicting various scenes of the Jews and other citizens at Terezin.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is thematic
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: International Committee of the Red Cross
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Birkenau (Concentration camp)
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)
- Deutsches Rotes Kreuz
Subjects
- Deportation.
- Sanitation.
- Berlin (Germany)
- Typhus fever.
- Jews--Czechoslovakia.
- Concentration camps.
- Geneva (Switzerland)
- Prague (Czech Republic)
- Croatia.
Genre
- Document
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Red Cross - International Committee