Person:Folke Bernadotte (1)

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Folke Bernadotte
b.2 Jan 1895
d.17 Sep 1948
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Name Folke Bernadotte
Gender Male
Birth[1] 2 Jan 1895
Death[1] 17 Sep 1948
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Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948) was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. In World War II he negotiated the release of about 31,000 prisoners from German concentration camps, including 450 Danish Jews from the Theresienstadt camp. They were released on 14 April 1945. In 1945 he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected.

After the war, Bernadotte was unanimously chosen to be the United Nations Security Council mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict of 1947–1948. He was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948 by the paramilitary Zionist group Lehi while pursuing his official duties. Upon his death, Ralph Bunche took up his work at the UN, successfully mediating the 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and Egypt.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Folke Bernadotte, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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