Selected records from the Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross

International Committee of the Red Cross 

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. 

Selected records from the Archives of the International Committee of the Red Cross 

116.775 digital images, JPEG 1 microfilm reel, 16 mm 

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. 

Copyright Holder: International Committee of the Red Cross 

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.