Darkness in Red Cross History: A Century of ICRC Failures Toward the Jewish People - B’nai B’rith International

Darkness in Red Cross History: A Century of ICRC Failures Toward the Jewish People - B’nai B’rith International

By Eduardo Kohn, B’nai B’rith Director of Latin American Affairs When we open the website of the Red Cross, we find three words that make up the definition of its mission: neutral, impartial and independent. When we ask ourselves where the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was during the Shoah, the answer is that the organization was not neutral, nor impartial and far from independent. This is because the ICRC did nothing to help J…