Hostages and political prisoners Otages et détenus politiques

Identifier
irn505509
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1996.A.0580
  • RG-19.044M
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1952, 1 Jan 1940 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • French
  • German
  • English
  • Italian
  • Spanish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

16 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm

digital images,

Archival History

Centre de documentation juive contemporaine (CDJC)

Acquisition

The Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (AICRC) received the dossiers of series G44 after World War II. ICRC filmed the records for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in 1996.

Scope and Content

Contains records of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Commission of Prisoners, Internees, and Civilians (PIC) from ACICR series G 44, Otages et détenus politiques, relating to aid for hostages and political prisoners in Nazi concentration camps; hostages and political prisoners in prisons and concentration camps in Germany; hostages, political prisoners, and resistance fighters imprisoned during World War II and after by satellite regimes of the Nazis or imprisoned by Germany in countries occupied by Germany and German nationals detained or interned in countries of the Allied coalition during or after World War II; the aid policy of the International Committee of the Red Cross to hostages and political prisoners; repatriation of deportees; cases of aid to individuals; and the civil war in Greece.

System of Arrangement

Organized in the following sub-series: G 44/00, Généralitée of hostages and political prisoners; G 44/13, Hostages and political prisoners in Germany; G 44/..., Hostages and political prisoners by country and nationality (except Germany); G 44/Sec, Aid to hostages and political prisoners; G 44/R, Repatriation of deportees; G 44/C.P., Individual cases (of all nationalities);and G 44/53c, Civil war in Greece Arrangement is numerical by sub-series number and file number, and chronological within the files

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