War child David Isherwood, now 80 was just eight-years-old when the Germans took over his home town of St Helier, Jersey and recalled how the Red Cross food parcel was a ray of light in dark times.

Stories of the Red Cross staff and volunteer preparations and experiences show how the British, American and Canadian Red Crosses worked together closely for a quick response to D-Day. In the British ...

It began with one used golf club, sent to a British military pilot detained in a German POW camp during World War II. Arriving in a Red Cross parcel but with no balls to hit, Sydney Smith had to ...

Red Cross volunteers packed bandages, sewed pajamas, fed soldiers, hosted fundraisers, and donated, collected and transported blood to help win World War II.

It wasn't until a few weeks ago, when my great-aunt shared a fragile, worn sheet of paper with faded blue ink, that I learned about my family’s desperation to stay in touch during World War II. The ...

In her World War II photographs and those of her friends, my mother is laughing and bright-eyed in every single one. I almost don’t recognize her.

In all, Sweden took in some 30,000 survivors during the war – half of them brought in by the Red Cross rescue mission – and 8,000 of chose to stay. The Dutch resistance fighter Neyssel was one ...