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Guerre d'Espagne (C ESCI)

Document | Accession Number: 2014.303 | RG Number: RG-58.031

Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Spain, in particular its work to identify prisoners and missing persons, facilitate prisoner exchanges, reunite families, and convey personal messages. Contains prisoner lists sent to the ICRC, personal messages conveyed by the ICRC, and lists compiled from family inquiries, among other records. This collection is complimentary to RG-58.030. Procès-verbaux de la Commission d'Espagne (B CR 212 PV): Minutes of the Commission of Spain.

Alternate Title
ICRC, Spanish Civil War
Date
inclusive:  1936-1940
Language
French
Spanish
English
Genre/Form
Correspondence.
Statistics.
Telegrams.
Registers.
Photographs.
Reports.
Extent
39,223 digital images : JPEG ; 41.5 GB .

About This Document

Document Creator
Fabrizio Bensi
Biography
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.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in three series: 1. Statistics, correspondence and reports, 1937-1940; 2. Various lists of prisoners, children, and lists of evacuees, 1936-1939; 3. Alphabetical files for individuals, 1936-1939.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
International Committee of the Red Cross
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Source of acquisition is the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Switzerland. The original documents are kept in the Archives of ICRC in Geneva. Duplicate copies are also kept in the Historical Memory Documentary Centre (Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica) in Salamanca, Spain. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Programs in November 2014.

Rights and 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
 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 20:09:12
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