While the COVID-19 crisis has forced most Archives and Libraries to close their doors, including the ICRC’s, we wanted to remind our users of our existing online databases and catalogues, online presence and contacts.

Databases and Catalogues

 

 

Our audiovisual archives portal gives access to over 125’000 digital or digitized photos, 8’700 digital sound files and nearly 7’500 films/videos. New AV resources are added every day.

 

 

 

 

Our Library catalogue gives access to over 3’000 ICRC digital publications and over 100’000 pages of digitized documents from the Library heritage collections

 

 

Search for World War I Prisoners of War (5 mio of index cards and 400’000 lists digitized related to 2mio of prisoners)

 

 

 

Search or browse through existing ICRC paper archives inventories on the European Archives Portal.

 

Socials

Stay connected with us:

ICRC Archives on Facebook 

Library on Twitter 

Contacts

Last but not least, our team of archivists and librarians remain at your disposal via emails. Although we do face restrictions in physically accessing our archives and library collections, we do whatever we can to help our users remotely.

You can contact us at the following addresses :

LIBRARY AND GENERAL PUBLIC ARCHIVES

AUDIOVISUAL ARCHIVES

TRACING ARCHIVES

Looking for more? Check out this amazing initiative from the International Council on Archives