The International Committee and the reuniting of families

1963 ◽  
Vol 3 (22) ◽  
pp. 21-22
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World

Since the end of the Second World War, the International Committee of the Red Cross has been carrying out a non-stop action to reunite or to help to reunite members of families scattered by war or as a result of events which have taken place in Europe or other continents. The International Review has devoted several articles to this problem, the tragic character of which is all too evident.

Fifty years in the service of the Red Cross

1964 ◽  
Vol 4 (43) ◽  
pp. 534-534
Keyword(s):  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Review ◽  
World War ◽  
Central Agency ◽  
General Secretariat ◽  
Second World

During the Presidential Council meeting on September 24, 1964, the International Committee took leave of a staff member with fifty years service to her credit. Miss M.-L. Compagnon began working with the International Prisoners of War Agency in October 1914, at that time installed in the Rath Museum in Geneva. From 1919 onwards she was a member of the Secretariat staff of the ICRC, which grew in importance progressively with events, e.g.: the Abyssinian war, the Spanish civil war, the Second World War of 1939. At that time Miss Compagnon was working in the Central Agency for Prisoners of War, where she attended to the recording of mail. Later she was attached to the Delegations Bureau. Subsequently she joined the General Secretariat and since 1955 was a member of the Department responsible for the publication of the International Review.

For the Victims of Pseudo-Medical Experiments

1969 ◽  
Vol 9 (104) ◽  
pp. 646-647
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
Central European ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
Second World

Twenty-five years after the second World War, the International Committee of the Red Cross is still dealing with claims for compensation from people living in certain Central European countries who were victims of pseudo-medical experiments in German concentration camps.

The activity of the International Tracing Service

1961 ◽  
Vol 1 (9) ◽  
pp. 503-504
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
German Federal Republic ◽  
World War ◽  
Assistant Director ◽  
Second World ◽  
Italian National Institute

The International Commission of the ITS (International Tracing Service), which consists of representatives of the Governments of Belgium, France, German Federal Republic, Great Britain, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxemburg, Netherlands and the United States, held its 25th meeting on October 30, under the presidency of the Italian delegate, Mr. Paolucci. This meeting took place at the Italian National Institute of Cologne, in the presence of the Directors of the ITS, Mr. Nicolas Burckhardt and of a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mr. Claude Pilloud, Assistant Director for General Affairs. It should be recalled that the International Tracing Service possesses immense archives and a great number of card-indexes concerning the fate of persons who had been deported, displaced or missing during the Second World War in Germany and in the countries then occupied by the German forces. Since 1955 the ICRC has been responsible for running this important information centre.

The International Committee of the Red Cross and political prisoners

1985 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 615-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Political Prisoners ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
World War ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Second World

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has greatly expanded its activities on behalf of political prisoners since the Second World War. The ICRC's involvement with this issue has resulted from a series of incremental steps, taken over more than a hundred years, and it raises difficult legal, political, and moral questions. Is the ICRC, by operating in this highly sensitive area, endangering its special relationship with governments–a relationship that is vital for the performance of its more traditional functions in wartime? Should the organization be more open or less Swiss? Is it evading fundamental moral issues? The ICRC's success in achieving its objectives also raises questions as to why states have permitted a nongovernmental organization to intervene in their internal affairs and whether the ICRC provides a model that other nongovernmental organizations concerned with human rights might seek to emulate.

Anniversary at the International Tracing Service

1980 ◽  
Vol 20 (217) ◽  
pp. 207-207
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
World War ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Second World

Twenty-five years ago the International Committee of the Red Cross took over the management of the International Tracing Service, founded at the end of the Second World War by the Federal Republic of Germany, France, Great Britain and the United States. A short ceremony, attended by some 250 staff members of the ITS, marked this anniversary, at the beginning of June, at Arolsen.

FEEDING THE CAMPS: ALLIED BLOCKADE POLICY AND THE RELIEF OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN GERMANY, 1944–1945

1998 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 825-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
RONALD W. ZWEIG
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Voluntary Organizations ◽  
World War ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Second World

In the twelve months preceding the end of the Second World War, the International Committee of the Red Cross and various voluntary organizations acting with the Red Cross, were able to dispatch food parcels to increasingly large numbers of concentration camp inmates in Germany and German-controlled territory. As Allied pressure on Germany increased during the last months of the war, the possibilities of sending large-scale relief into the camps prior to their liberation expanded dramatically. However, Allied blockade policy was so deeply entrenched that it was almost impossible for these possibilities to be fully exploited. Official relief agencies failed to convince Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) that improving the rations of the camp inmates would not strengthen the German working force but would alleviate the problems that SHAEF itself would confront when it liberated the camps shortly thereafter.

Death of Mr. Carl J. Burckhardt, Honorary Member of the ICRC

1974 ◽  
Vol 14 (157) ◽  
pp. 189-190
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
World War ◽  
Time And Energy ◽  
Second World

It was with deep regret that the International Committee learned of the death of Mr. Carl J. Burckhardt on 3 March 1974. When he was appointed a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1933, Carl Burckhardt tirelessly worked with Max Huber, another eminent member and a former President of the ICRC. From November 1939, he devoted himself fully to ICRC activities and gave all his time and energy during the whole of the Second World War to the manifold tasks that had to be carried out.

Death of Mr. F. Barbey, honorary member of the ICRC

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (116) ◽  
pp. 639-639
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Honorary Member ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Second World ◽  
First World

It was with regret that the International Committee learnt of the death, on 21 October 1970, of Mr. Frédéric Barbey, who was co-opted to the ICRC in 1915 and was at that time active in the work of the International Prisoners of War Agency. In 1921 he became an honorary member and in 1938 again dedicated himself fully to the work of the Red Cross. Devoting himself unstintingly to the institution as soon as the Second World War broke out, as he had done during the First World War, he gave invaluable assistance. International Review had occasion in June 1947, when Mr. Barbey had again become an honorary member of the institution, to mention the important part he played in helping the ICRC to discharge its mission. The following extract from that article concerns his work from 1939 onwards:

Twentieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War

1965 ◽  
Vol 5 (51) ◽  
pp. 310-311
Keyword(s):  
International Committee ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
World War ◽  
Human Race ◽  
The World ◽  
Twentieth Anniversary ◽  
Second World

The twentieth anniversary of the end of hostilities in 1945 gave the Red Cross a welcome opportunity to recall the activities undertaken under its flag to allay sufferings caused by the greatest cataclysm which has yet affected the human race. The International Committee of the Red Cross which is called upon to assume heavy responsibilities in case of war wishes to put on record here some aspects of its action as neutral intermediary in favour of all the victims of the world conflict.

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