You have questions about family reunification of ethnic German repatriates. We have compiled some frequently asked questions (FAQ) on this subject with answers from the GRC Tracing Service.
As the Red Army progressed as far as the Elbe, a third camp system - the special camps - was set up in addition to the two large camp administrations for prisoners of war and other prisoners. What…
The Children's Tracing Service of the GRC is dedicated to children who were separated from their families due to flight, expulsion or evacuation in connection with the Second World War.
The GRC Tracing Service supports relatives in clarifying the fate of prisoners of war and missing persons from the Second World War. This allows many families to finally get certainty.
The International Tracing Service Network consists currently of 192 National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (as of December 2019) and the Central Tracing Service of the International Committee…
The Tracing Service is a core service of the Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement. Its mission is to preserve the humanitarian right to know how one’s relatives are doing or what has become of them.
There are many reasons why relatives around the world lose contact with each other today. The GRC Tracing Service helps people in Germany searching for a relative on the sole basis of…