Red Cross center in Geneva
Creator(s)
- UFA (Producer)
- Imperial War Museums
Scope and Content
The scene opens on a big Red Cross flag in a cavernous room. The narrator says that this is the Red Cross center in Geneva. The camera pans down to show rows and rows of filing cabinets, where volunteers work with index cards in the file drawers. Signs indicate the departments for various countries. Workers in the correspondence section, where letters to and from prisoners and their relatives are routed. CU of a woman attaching a photograph of a man to a letter with a paperclip. Another view of the filing cabinets. 01:02:35 A few seconds of another part of this newsreel (Not ordered by USHMM)
Subjects
- SIGNS/POSTERS
- LETTERS
- INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE (ITS)
- RED CROSS
- WOMEN
- DOCUMENTS
Places
- Geneva, Switzerland
Genre
- Film
- Newsreels.