Requests for information about people held during Spanish Civil War or Second World War
Regarding a request for information about someone held as a prisoner of war or civilian internee during the Spanish Civil War or the Second World War.
Given our extremely limited resources and the digitization project, we are unable to accept new requests on January 25, 2027, as initially planned. We have to interrupt the research service provided by our archivists until further notice.
We wish to apologize for any inconvenience caused by the temporary interruption of our service and we hope to be able to provide you with improved online access to our archives in the near future.
Learn more about our working procedures and our digital transformation.
We may still be able to deal with requests of a humanitarian nature if:
- you are the person concerned;
- your request is linked to administrative formalities or a compensation claim;
- you are seeking to determine the identity of a natural parent or grandparent.
Such requests should be sent to tracing.archives@icrc.org, together with supporting documents and all relevant information. Please make sure that your request meets one of the criteria above, because staff will not accept or reply to requests that do not.
