Title: Red Cross Papers, 1939 -- 1945
Predominant Dates:1939 -- 1945
ID: RG-72.05/RG-72.05
Primary Creator: International Red Cross (1939 -- 1945)
Other Creators: International Committee of the Red Cross (1939 -- 1945)
Extent: 0.0
Arrangement: Materials are arranged by subject/creator, then by identifier, as assigned by the processor.
Subjects: Correspondence between the belligerent countries during the Second World War, International Committee of the Red Cross, Red Cross messages during the Second World War
Languages: Hungarian, German, French, English, Czech, Spanish;Castilian, Polish
This collection contains the Red Cross messages of 25 words by which means individuals and families in the belligerent countries corresponded with each other.
This Collections contains the Red Cross messages exchanged between European countries and territories occupied or controlled by Nazi Germany on one side and the countries of anti-Nazi Coallition, the neutral countries and Palestine.
The legal basis of the work of the International Committee of the Red Cross during the Second World War were the Geneva Conventions in their 1929 revision. The activities of the Committee include visiting and monitoring POW camps, organizing relief assistance for civilian populations, and administering the exchange of messages regarding prisoners and missing persons
During the Second World War, the International Red Cross exercising the provision of its Charter, provided individuals and families to send messages limited to 25 words between the belligerent countries.
Repository:
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
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[Document/Artifact of Item-Level 21: British Red Cross Message from London to Berlin, Germany, written from Margarete Frankenschwerth to Henny Frankenschwerth, 12 October 1942, 12 October 1942],
[Document/Artifact of Item-Level 21: British Red Cross Message from London to Berlin, Germany, written from Margarete Frankenschwerth to Henny Frankenschwerth, 12 October 1942, 12 October 1942],
