In 2015, the World Jewish Congress organised an event at the Geneva’s Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps, titled “Remembering the Shoah: The ICRC and the International Community’s Efforts in Responding to Genocide and Protecting Civilians”. In his keynote address at the event, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer said: “The ICRC failed to protect civilians and, most notably, the Jews persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime. It failed as a humanitarian organisation because it lost its mora…