Marguerite Gautier-Van Berchem – an emblematic figure 3 May 2021, Portraits / Tracing ArchivesMarie Allemann, Archives Agence Very early on, the ICRC set up information agencies in order to restore contact between family members separated by conflict and ease the ...
Searching for Renato 27 April 2021, Archives / Tracing ArchivesMarie Allemann, Archives Agence A family finds its roots When Clare Collins sent a message to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Agency Archives on ...
Theatre in Third Reich prisoner of war camps 26 April 2021, Archives / Audiovisual Archives / PhotoFarah Hocine, photographic archives History and photography are undeniably intertwined; historians often lament, unsurprisingly, that photography was not invented earlier.[1] Visitors to the ICRC’s online audiovisual archive ...
Prisonnier de guerre…: when fiction staked its place in the ICRC’s filmography 14 April 2021, Archives / Articles / Audiovisual Archives / Film/videoPauline Juvet, film archives In the course of the Second World War, the International Committee of the Red Cross ...
The ICRC filmography is 100 years old. Journey into the past 28 January 2021, Archives / Audiovisual Archives / Film/videoMarina Meier, film archives 1921-2021: the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is celebrating this year the 100th anniversary of its first film. This is an ...
A gift that keeps giving 18 December 2020, Archives / Articles / Tracing ArchivesMarie Allemann, Archives Agence My tale of an unusual research in the Tracing Archives In the summer of 2020, Wolfgang Maass and his wife Renate received an ...
The ICRC’s film archives from yesterday to nowadays 8 December 2020, Archives / Audiovisual Archives / Film/videoMarina Meier, film archives For a century, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been producing films to document and publicize its work to protect ...
The ICRC: A history of restoring family links 1 December 2020, Archives / Articles / Tracing ArchivesMarie Allemann, Archives Agence 150 years ago, the ICRC began its action to restore family links for people separated by conflict. Since 1870, the activities of the ...
The long journey of an Italian prisoner of war 30 April 2020, Archives / Portraits / Tracing ArchivesMarie Allemann, Archives Agence Find out the long journey of an Italian prisoner of war during the Second World War. The Italian prisoners of war captured by ...
Hugo Pratt and ICRC in Ethiopia 16 April 2020, Archives / Portraits / Tracing ArchivesMarie Allemann, Archives Agence Hugo Pratt, author of the comic book series “Corto Maltese”, is one of the celebrities registered in the archives of the Central Prisoners ...
