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Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg ( in Swedish: Greve af Wisborg ; 2 January 1895 – 17 September 1948 ) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman noted for his negotiation of the release of about 31, 000 prisoners from German concentration camps during World War II, including 450 Danish Jews from Theresienstadt released on 14 April 1945.
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Folke and Bernadotte
His masseur, Felix Kersten, who had moved to Sweden, acted as an intermediary in negotiations with Count Folke Bernadotte, head of the Swedish Red Cross.
* 1895 – Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat ( d. 1948 )
* 1948 – The Lehi ( also known as the Stern gang ) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
* September 17 – Lehi members assassinate Swedish count Folke Bernadotte.
* September 17 – Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat ( assassinated ) ( b. 1895 )
* Folke Bernadotte
In response to a request from Count Folke Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator for Palestine, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie, sent 50 members of the United Nations guard force from Lake Success to assist the Mediator in supervising the Truce in the former British Mandate of Palestine in 1948 and the " UNTSO ", the first peacekeeping operation was established by the United Nations.
Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden was appointed.
On 29 May 1948, UN Security Council Resolution 50 ( 1948 ), called for a cessation of hostilities in Palestine and decided that the truce should be supervised by the UN Mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg, with the assistance of a group of military observers.
The first group of observers to serve in Palestine under the UN Mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, arrived in Rhodes at 6 P. M. GMT 20 July.
On 17 September 1948, UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, and Colonel André Serot while on an official tour of duty to Jerusalem were murdered " in cold blood ... in the Katamon quarter of Jerusalem by Jewish assailants.
Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden is appointed Mediator.
Folke Bernadotte was born in Stockholm into the House of Bernadotte.
Count Folke Bernadotte ( left ) talking to Australian prisoners of war in Germany, 1943.
On 28 April, Hitler learned that Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler had contacted Count Folke Bernadotte in Lübeck to offer Germany's surrender to the western Allies ; the offer had been declined.
Through negotiations with the Nazi leader and the subsequent talks with the head of the Swedish Red Cross, Folke Bernadotte, the WJC was allowed to save 4, 500 inmates from the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück.
In 1948, he traveled to the Middle East as the chief aide to Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte, who had been appointed by the UN to mediate the conflict.
Ralph Bunche, who had become UN mediator after the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, said:
* Folke Bernadotte Academy, or Folke Bernadotteakademin.
At the end of the war, Schellenberg was able to persuade Himmler to try negotiating with the Western Allies through Count Folke Bernadotte and personally went to Stockholm in April 1945 to arrange their meeting.
The most well-known is Folke Bernadotte, a son of Oscar Bernadotte, the first Count of Wisborg.
Folke and Count
* Count Bertil Bernadotte af Wisborg ( son of Folke ) and Countess Jill Bernadotte af Wisborg.
His father's first cousin was Count Folke Bernadotte, and his own first cousin was the father of King Carl XVI Gustaf.
* Estelle Manville Bernadotte af Wisborg ( 1904-1984 ), American-Swedish countess, married to Count Folke Bernadotte
Most notable among these were Raoul Wallenberg and Count Folke Bernadotte, who saved over 100, 000 European Jews from the concentration camps.
* 360, 000 in September, 1948, according to the Progress Report of the United Nations Mediator on Palestine published by UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, September 16, 1948.
The Swedish archives testify that Kersten was intermediary between Himmler and Count Folke Bernadotte in the negotiations that led to the rescue operation ' The White Buses ', saving hundreds of Norwegians and Danes from certain death in the last days of the Third Reich.
It was written and prepared by the UN Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte and was published on September 16, 1948 one day before he was assassinated by members of Lehi.
Folke and Swedish
Later research, though, showed that the political Folkungs were not just descendants of Jarl Folke — instead, they belonged to different Swedish noble families, united by the ambition to fight against a central ruler of Sweden.
A local hunter guided the Swedish explorer and archeologist Folke Bergman to the site in 1934.
Hans Folke " Hasse " Alfredson ( born 28 June 1931 in Malmö ) is a Swedish actor, film director, writer and comedian.
Bror Axel Folke Per Rogard ( 6 July 1899 – 11 June 1973 ) was a Swedish lawyer and chess official.
Towards the end of the war, the Swedish count Folke Bernadotte tried to get all Scandinavian concentration camp prisoners to Sweden.
* Folke Jonsson, Swedish opera singer
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( L to R ) Folke Hertling, Germany, Chris Smith, UK ;
Construction began in 1958 ; engineer Folke Strandén designed a ring antenna system consisting of a central mast surrounded by five antennas, to be connected to two 300 kW Compagnie Français Thomson Houston ( CFTH ) transmitters.
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* March 3 – Folke Johansson Ängel, Archbishop of Uppsala since 1274
Keres won a match with Folke Ekström at Stockholm in 1944 by 5 – 1 (+ 4
Folke Skoog discovered their effects using coconut milk in the 1940s at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
* Folke Johansson Ängel, Archbishop of Uppsala ( 1267 – 1277 )
* 1267 – 1277 Folke Johansson Ängel ( Fulco Angelus ).
* Folke Asplund – Fredrik Blom
* Folke Sundquist – Tamino ( uncredited )
A new era arose in the history of the archdiocese when Archbishop Folke ( 1274 – 77 ) transferred the see from Old Upsala to Aros, a town nearby on the Fyris which was given the name of Upsala.
Folke Johansson Ängel ( Latin: Fulco Angelus ) ( died 1277 ) was Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden ( 1267 – 1277 ), although he was not ordained by the Pope until 1274.
* Folke Kyling, 1941 – 1945
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