Tracing Service is one of the oldest Red Cross services.

Tracing Service activities have been continually developed and implemented since 1878 when Red Cross was founded in Croatia.

  

Croatian Red Cross received and processed tracing requests for persons who went missing during: the Homeland War, the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, operations Flash (Bljesak) and Storm (Oluja), the World War II, as well as for persons who went missing due to some other circumstances.

Croatian Red Cross:
- received, processed and distributed family messages;
- assisted in release and reception of prisoners of war and interned civilians;
- organized reunion meetings for separated family members;
- assisted at exhumations sites, and informed families about post-mortem identification procedure (giving blood sample, identification of personal and other objects found with the remains);
- contacted and cooperated with 30 National Societies, International Tracing Service in Arolsen and Central Tracing Agency in Geneva;
- received and processed requests for single occasion allocation of humanitarian relief for the victims of Nazism during the WWII.