Books behind barbed wire: ICRC’s intellectual relief for POWs during the Second World War 23 April 2025, Articles / Crosswise / LibraryClara Palmisano, Library “While respecting the individual preferences of every prisoner, the Detaining Power shall encourage the practice of intellectual, educational, and recreational pursuits, sports and ...
A perilous journey across the Atlantic, part 2 23 February 2023, Archives / Tracing ArchivesMarie 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 23 June 2022, Archives / Tracing ArchivesMarie 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 in the ICRC Archives 8 September 2021, Archives / ArticlesGregory 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 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 ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
