International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

A neutral aid organization founded in Geneva in 1864, today comprising the Red Cross and Red Crescent as well as national societies worldwide. The organization’s humanitarian mission is to ensure protection of and assistance for victims of armed conflicts, violence, and other emergencies. During World War II, the ICRC failed to address the situation of Jews in Nazi concentration camps for most of the war, after the German Red Cross refused to communicate with the ICRC on the matters pertaining to “non-Aryan” prisoners.