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The German Red Cross (DRK) was founded in 1921, bringing together various independent Red Cross associations that had previously operated autonomously within the German states. These regional branches trace their origins back to the former independent members of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
The worldwide structure of Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross make this service possible. When new information from former Soviet Union archives became available in the 1990s, a special unit was created to handle World War II and Holocaust tracing services.
The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16 million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering.
The ICRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, along with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and 191 National Societies. [5] It is the oldest and most honoured organization within the movement and one of the most widely recognized organizations in the world, having won three ...
A body bag being folded by some policemen and sailors in 2006. A body bag in the morgue of the Charité in Berlin , Germany.. A body bag, also known as a cadaver pouch or human remains pouch (HRP), is a non-porous bag designed to contain a human body, used for the storage and transportation of shrouded corpses.
Iris giganticaerulea, the giant blue iris, is a species of iris, in the subgenus Limniris, in the series Hexagonae.It is a rhizomatous perennial, from northern America.It has long bright green leaves, very tall stems and one or two musky fragrant flowers in a range of blue shades (pale, bright, dark, lavender and violet) or rarely white.
Red Cross parcel refers to packages containing mostly food, tobacco and personal hygiene items sent by the International Association of the Red Cross to prisoners of war (POWs) during the First and Second World Wars, [1] as well as at other times. It can also refer to medical parcels and so-called "release parcels" provided during the Second ...
Iris giganticaerulea – Giant Blue Iris, Giant Blue Flag; Iris hexagona Walt. – Dixie Iris; Iris nelsonii Randolph – (Abbeville Iris) Iris savannarum Small – Prairie iris; Series Laevigatae (which includes the Japanese irises) Iris ensata Thunb. – Japanese Iris, hanashÅbu (including I. kaempferi) Iris laevigata Fisch – Rabbitear ...