International Day of the Disappeared
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Tracing
The GRC Tracing Service clarifies the fates of missing persons from the Second World War and searches worldwide for people who have been separated from their relatives as a result of current armed conflicts and disasters.
Connecting
The GRC Tracing Service enables the exchange of messages between relatives who have lost contact to each other and cannot communicate using conventional means.
Reuniting
The GRC Tracing Service advises and supports relatives who are separated by armed conflict, disaster, flight, expulsion or migration in reuniting families in Germany.
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The GRC TRACING SERVICE...
supports people who have become separated from their family due to armed conflicts, natural disasters, escape, displacement or migration.
It helps to trace family members, to put them back in contact and to reunite families.
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The Waiting Room: New film about the suffering of ambiguous loss
Due to armed conflicts, flight and displacement, countless people around the world disappear without a trace every year. Millions of families miss their loved ones and do not know what has happened to them. Hope and fear are their constant companions: will he ever come back, is she still alive? Is the missing family member in distress and in urgent need of help?
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) illustrates the emotional limbo associated with this uncertainty for the relatives of missing persons. Watch the new German version of the film The Waiting Room and witness the suffering that uncertainty about the whereabouts of a loved one can cause.
