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.
The GRC Tracing Service also conducts research in archives of the Russian Federation and other states in Eastern Europe in order to clarify the fate of individuals.
The Central Name Index is the most important information tool of the GRC Tracing Service. The 50 million index cards provide information on new data, reports received, measures carried out, as well…
The emigration of Germans to Eastern and Southeastern European countries has a long history. Life as a minority was often marked by resettlement and discrimination.
The search for relatives separated by armed conflict and the clarification of missing persons' fates have been part of the GRC's work from the very beginning.
