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Prisoners’ objects: The collection of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum

  • Roger Mayou
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The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum has a unique collection of prisoners’ objects – items made by conflict-related detainees and given to International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegates who, in keeping with the ICRC's mandate under the Geneva Conventions, were visiting the prisons.

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1 Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956, Collins & Harvill Press, London, 1974, p. 17 .

* This photo gallery is based on extracts from the book Prisoners’ Objects, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum and 5 Continents Editions, Geneva and Milan, 2017.

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International Review of the Red Cross
  • ISSN: 1816-3831
  • EISSN: 1607-5889
  • URL: /core/journals/international-review-of-the-red-cross
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