Overview
- Description
- Contains documents created and collected by the International Committee of the Red Cross including correspondence related to stateless individuals, information on discriminatory and expulsion measures in Bavaria, and materials related to the development and administration of the concentration camp system in Nazi Germany.
- Date
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inclusive:
1921-1950
- Collection Creator
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Biography
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian organization based in Geneva, Switzerland and a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signatories) to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 (Protocol I, Protocol II) and 2005 have given the ICRC a mandate to protect victims of international and internal armed conflicts. Such victims include war wounded, prisoners, refugees, civilians, and other non-combatants. The ICRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement along with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and 190 National Societies. It is the oldest and most honored organization within the Movement and one of the most widely recognized organizations in the world, having won three Nobel Peace Prizes in 1917, 1944, and 1963.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence. Notes. Registers. Reports. Statistics.
- Extent
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116.775 digital images : JPEG ; 112 GB .
1 microfilm reel ; 16 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is thematic. Microfilm reel: CR 163; Heimatlose (Stateless persons); CR 123; Jewish expulsions, 1923-1939. 2 files; CR 110; Hostages and Political Prisoners. 1921-1945;
Accretion 2021, digital component consists of following records:
B G 017-Prisoner files. Reports, and correspondence;
C G2 DP-Displaced persons files. Lists, correspondence and reports;
C G2 FD-Documentation on internees. Correspondence, reports, statistics, instructions and notes;
C G2 PA; Individual files of German prisoners of war interned in the United Kingdom and files of international prisoners. Name lists and correspondence;
G 7; G 25; G 37; G 40; G 48; G 60; G 65; G 67;
G 69-Files on Jewish infants;
G 86 and 98-Files on dispersed families, Germany 1939-1950;
O CMS-Correspondence with American Friends Service Committee and Unitarian Service, world Jewish Congress and other organizations. Reports.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum may not make copies of the entirety of the film or digital files for third parties and not to publish or circulate a large number of documents without the written permission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The Museum may permit third parties to print out selected pages and parts of the materials for private study and research in accordance with its archival operations and its rules. The files of the ICRC contain personal, medical, legal, professional and other details that merit degree of protection. Researchers must therefore be particularly careful to respect the privacy of the individuals to whom those documents refer. The ICRC expressly draws researcher's attention to the fact that public disclosure of information that could harm a person's reputation or constitute an invasion of privacy is in breach of Article 28 of the Swiss Civil Code.
- Copyright Holder
- International Committee of the Red Cross
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons. World War, 1939-1945--Civilian relief. Humanitarian assistance--Switzerland--History--20th century. International agencies--History--20th century. Jewish children in the Holocaust--Europe. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe--History.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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International Committee of the Red Cross
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Records created by the International Committee of the Red Cross (IRO) in the course of carrying out its operations relating to refugees and displaced persons, hostages and political detainees, and the expulsion of Jews in Europe and elsewhere. Source of acquisition is the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comite International de la Croix-Rouge), Geneva. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in 1998, and accretion in 2021.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 15:26:49
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