Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 5th episode
Description
Index cards
More than five million index cards were used to trace the fate of prisoners, internees and displaced people during the First World War. This podcast episode focuses on one of those cards – but it wasn’t chosen at random.
Find us on all platforms: https://linknbio.com/redcrossmuseum.ch
Credits
Podcast © Caroline Stevan | Sound editing © Nathan Wyssa | Sound recording © Pierre-Antoine Possa | With the participation of Valérie McNight
Tags
AudiosImagesExhibitionsObjectsIn the same collection
Woven pot made of salvaged materials
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1139/tissage.600x0.png)
Kleenex box, "Love-Yasmine-2003-ICRC"
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1151/col-2005-35-1_a161nr.0x600.jpg)
Composition with butterfly wings
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1376/col-1998-49-1_a090jb.0x600.jpg)
Boots of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1352/bottines_web.600x0.jpg)
Fragment of a car door shredded by a grenade
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1375/col-2002-37-4.0x600.jpg)
Leg prosthesis in wood and rubber
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1374/col-1999-135-1-11.600x0.jpg)
Arm prosthesis
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1377/col-1999-135-1-9.0x600.jpg)
Cardboard reading panel for eye test
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1373/col-1999-110-1_a020sb-2.600x0.jpg)
Dress of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1358/col-1996-20-1-1.600x0.jpg)
Flask of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1356/dsc1746_web.600x0.jpg)
Tights of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1357/dsc1821_web.600x0.jpg)
Hat of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1353/dsc1771_web.600x0.jpg)
Armband of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1354/dsc1803_web.0x600.jpg)
First aid kit for nurses
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1355/dsc1752_web.600x0.jpg)
Cup
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1347/dsc1794_web.600x0.jpg)
First Aid Kit
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1332/dsc1817_web.600x0.jpg)
Stretcher, first half of 20th century
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1331/dsc1865_web.600x0.jpg)
"Because of a mine you can lose a leg while playing"
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1360/col-1999-108-1_2.600x0.jpg)
Blood transfusion service
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1334/bbt-1988-47-4_web.0x600.jpg)
Casualty
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1344/bbt-1988-47-6.600x0.jpg)
First aid kit
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1342/dsc1790_web.600x0.jpg)
HUMANITY by Henry Leutwyler
Texts, Books, Objects, Posters, Photographs
![](/site/assets/files/1709/humanity_1.0x600.jpg)
Flag of the Cruz Blanca Neutral Mexicana
Images, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1715/dsc7696.0x600.jpg)
Two columns and a fragment of marble from the Castle of the Materity of Elne
Images, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1716/dsc7651.0x600.jpg)
Bullet received by ICRC delegate Dr Georges Henny
Images, Objects
![© Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1720/dsc7687.0x600.jpg)
Dr Patay's medical kit with complete set of emergency surgical instruments
Images, Objects
![© Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1721/dsc7587.0x600.jpg)
Dunant-Passy Nobel Prize
Images, Objects
![© Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1722/dsc7632.0x600.jpg)
Artisanal femoral prosthesis, Angola, 1996
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1754/col-1999-138-1-5.600x0.jpg)
Bone statuette, Laos
Images, Objects
![Bone statuette, Laos, C. 1970 © Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1848/dsc7636.0x600.jpg)
Third Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1851/diagr_2_a.600x0.jpg)
Second Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1852/diagr_1_a.600x0.jpg)
First Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1853/diagr_4.600x0.jpg)
Fourth Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1850/diagr_3-1.600x0.jpg)
HUMANITY, a video by Henry Leutwyler
Videos, Objects
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1VlNO4mjGdQ/0.jpg)
Esmarch Bandage
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1871/dsc2729.0x600.jpg)
Film cans from the Film Library of the League of Red Cross Societies
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1949/dsc2753.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1980/visuel_teaser_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 1st episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2001/visuel_ep1_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 2nd episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2032/visuel_ep2_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 3rd episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2107/visuel_ep3_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 4th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2113/visuel_ep4_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 6th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2137/visuel_ep6_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 7th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2138/visuel_ep7_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 8th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2178/visuel_ep8_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 9th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2179/visuel_ep9_sans_titre-1.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 10th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2180/visuel_ep10_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Linked contents
Permanent exhibition
Permanent exhibition, Current, At the museum
![](/site/assets/files/1126/laventure_humanitaire_dsc3159_2.0x600.jpg)
Human.Kind.
19.10.2023 to 25.08.2024
Exhibition, Current, At the museum
![](/site/assets/files/1728/r101669.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 1st episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2001/visuel_ep1_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 2nd episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2032/visuel_ep2_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 3rd episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2107/visuel_ep3_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 4th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2113/visuel_ep4_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 6th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2137/visuel_ep6_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 7th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2138/visuel_ep7_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 8th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2178/visuel_ep8_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 9th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2179/visuel_ep9_sans_titre-1.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 10th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2180/visuel_ep10_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 5th episode
Description
Index cards
More than five million index cards were used to trace the fate of prisoners, internees and displaced people during the First World War. This podcast episode focuses on one of those cards – but it wasn’t chosen at random.
Find us on all platforms: https://linknbio.com/redcrossmuseum.ch
Credits
Podcast © Caroline Stevan | Sound editing © Nathan Wyssa | Sound recording © Pierre-Antoine Possa | With the participation of Valérie McNight
Tags
AudiosImagesExhibitionsObjectsIn the same collection
Woven pot made of salvaged materials
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1139/tissage.600x0.png)
Kleenex box, "Love-Yasmine-2003-ICRC"
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1151/col-2005-35-1_a161nr.0x600.jpg)
Composition with butterfly wings
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1376/col-1998-49-1_a090jb.0x600.jpg)
Boots of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1352/bottines_web.600x0.jpg)
Fragment of a car door shredded by a grenade
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1375/col-2002-37-4.0x600.jpg)
Leg prosthesis in wood and rubber
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1374/col-1999-135-1-11.600x0.jpg)
Arm prosthesis
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1377/col-1999-135-1-9.0x600.jpg)
Cardboard reading panel for eye test
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1373/col-1999-110-1_a020sb-2.600x0.jpg)
Dress of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1358/col-1996-20-1-1.600x0.jpg)
Flask of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1356/dsc1746_web.600x0.jpg)
Tights of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1357/dsc1821_web.600x0.jpg)
Hat of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1353/dsc1771_web.600x0.jpg)
Armband of a nurse's uniform
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1354/dsc1803_web.0x600.jpg)
First aid kit for nurses
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1355/dsc1752_web.600x0.jpg)
Cup
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1347/dsc1794_web.600x0.jpg)
First Aid Kit
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1332/dsc1817_web.600x0.jpg)
Stretcher, first half of 20th century
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1331/dsc1865_web.600x0.jpg)
"Because of a mine you can lose a leg while playing"
Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1360/col-1999-108-1_2.600x0.jpg)
Blood transfusion service
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1334/bbt-1988-47-4_web.0x600.jpg)
Casualty
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1344/bbt-1988-47-6.600x0.jpg)
First aid kit
Images, Exhibitions, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1342/dsc1790_web.600x0.jpg)
HUMANITY by Henry Leutwyler
Texts, Books, Objects, Posters, Photographs
![](/site/assets/files/1709/humanity_1.0x600.jpg)
Flag of the Cruz Blanca Neutral Mexicana
Images, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1715/dsc7696.0x600.jpg)
Two columns and a fragment of marble from the Castle of the Materity of Elne
Images, Objects, Gender and diversity
![](/site/assets/files/1716/dsc7651.0x600.jpg)
Bullet received by ICRC delegate Dr Georges Henny
Images, Objects
![© Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1720/dsc7687.0x600.jpg)
Dr Patay's medical kit with complete set of emergency surgical instruments
Images, Objects
![© Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1721/dsc7587.0x600.jpg)
Dunant-Passy Nobel Prize
Images, Objects
![© Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1722/dsc7632.0x600.jpg)
Artisanal femoral prosthesis, Angola, 1996
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1754/col-1999-138-1-5.600x0.jpg)
Bone statuette, Laos
Images, Objects
![Bone statuette, Laos, C. 1970 © Zoé Aubry](/site/assets/files/1848/dsc7636.0x600.jpg)
Third Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1851/diagr_2_a.600x0.jpg)
Second Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1852/diagr_1_a.600x0.jpg)
First Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1853/diagr_4.600x0.jpg)
Fourth Diagram by Henry Dunant
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1850/diagr_3-1.600x0.jpg)
HUMANITY, a video by Henry Leutwyler
Videos, Objects
![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1VlNO4mjGdQ/0.jpg)
Esmarch Bandage
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1871/dsc2729.0x600.jpg)
Film cans from the Film Library of the League of Red Cross Societies
Images, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1949/dsc2753.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1980/visuel_teaser_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 1st episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2001/visuel_ep1_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 2nd episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2032/visuel_ep2_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 3rd episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2107/visuel_ep3_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 4th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2113/visuel_ep4_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 6th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2137/visuel_ep6_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 7th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2138/visuel_ep7_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 8th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2178/visuel_ep8_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 9th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2179/visuel_ep9_sans_titre-1.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 10th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2180/visuel_ep10_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Linked contents
Permanent exhibition
Permanent exhibition, Current, At the museum
![](/site/assets/files/1126/laventure_humanitaire_dsc3159_2.0x600.jpg)
Human.Kind.
19.10.2023 to 25.08.2024
Exhibition, Current, At the museum
![](/site/assets/files/1728/r101669.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 1st episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2001/visuel_ep1_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 2nd episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2032/visuel_ep2_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 3rd episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2107/visuel_ep3_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 4th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2113/visuel_ep4_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 6th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2137/visuel_ep6_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 7th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2138/visuel_ep7_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 8th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2178/visuel_ep8_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 9th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2179/visuel_ep9_sans_titre-1.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 10th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2180/visuel_ep10_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/1980/visuel_teaser_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 1st episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2001/visuel_ep1_site_sans_logo.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 2nd episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2032/visuel_ep2_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 3rd episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2107/visuel_ep3_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 4th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2113/visuel_ep4_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 6th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2137/visuel_ep6_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 7th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2138/visuel_ep7_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 8th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2178/visuel_ep8_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 9th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2179/visuel_ep9_sans_titre-1.0x600.jpg)
Podcast | Histoires d'objets | 10th episode
Audios, Images, Exhibitions, Objects
![](/site/assets/files/2180/visuel_ep10_sans_titre.0x600.jpg)