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Second World War

A perilous journey across the Atlantic, part 2

A perilous journey across the Atlantic, part 2

23 February 2023, Archives / Tracing Archives
Marie Allemann

Second part of the story A perilous journey across the Atlantic. Find here the first part. The third passenger on the SS Afric ...

A perilous journey across the Atlantic, part 1

A perilous journey across the Atlantic, part 1

23 June 2022, Archives / Tracing Archives
Marie Allemann, Agency Archives

In time of war, a single decision can change the course of a life forever. In early 1941, Frank Evans and his wife, ...

Iconographic Collections <br>in the ICRC Archives

Iconographic Collections
in the ICRC Archives

8 September 2021, Archives / Article
Gregory Nobs and Maude Graeppi

The V CI sub-fonds, Iconographic Collections, contains approximately 330 images of historical interest related to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), ...

Marguerite Gautier-Van Berchem – an emblematic figure

Marguerite Gautier-Van Berchem – an emblematic figure

3 May 2021, Portrait / Tracing Archives
Marie 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 ...

Theatre in Third Reich prisoner of war camps

Theatre in Third Reich prisoner of war camps

26 April 2021, Archives / Audiovisual / Photo
Farah 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 ...

A gift that keeps giving

A gift that keeps giving

18 December 2020, Archives / Article / Tracing Archives
Marie 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: A history of restoring family links

The ICRC: A history of restoring family links

1 December 2020, Archives / Article / Tracing Archives
Marie 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

The long journey of an Italian prisoner of war

30 April 2020, Archives / Portrait / Tracing Archives
Marie 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

Hugo Pratt and ICRC in Ethiopia

16 April 2020, Archives / Portrait / Tracing Archives
Marie 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 ...

The Agency’s Gazette

The Agency’s Gazette

2 April 2020, General Archives / Photo / Tracing Archives
Marie Allemann, Daniel Palmieri, Damian Gonzalez

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the “Basel Agency” (forerunner of the ICRC’s tracing and protection activities), we are pleased to ...