17 September 1948(1948-09-17) (aged 53) Jerusalem, Israel
Burial
Northern Cemetery, Solna
Spouse
Estelle Romaine Manville
(m. 1928)
Issue
Count Gustaf Eduard
Count Folke
Count Fredrik Oscar
Count Bertil Oscar
House
Bernadotte
Father
Prince Oscar Bernadotte
Mother
Ebba Munck af Fulkila
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 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 non-Jewish prisoners from many nations from the Nazi German Theresienstadt concentration camp.[1] They were released on 14 April 1945.[2][3] In 1945 he received a German surrender offer from Heinrich Himmler, though the offer was ultimately rejected by the allies.
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.
^Sune Persson, Folke Bernadotte and the White Buses, Journal of Holocaust Education, Vol 9, Iss 2–3, 2000, 237–268. Also published in David Cesarani and Paul A. Levine (eds.), Bystanders to the Holocaust: A Re-evaluation (Routledge, 2002). The precise number is nowhere officially recorded. A count of the first 21,000 included 8,000 Danes and Norwegians, 5,911 Poles, 2,629 French, 1,615 stateless Jews and 1,124 Germans. The total number of Jews was 6,500 to 11,000 depending on definitions. Also see A. Ilan, Bernadotte in Palestine, 1948 (Macmillan, 1989), p. 37.
^A Jew talks to Himmler Archived 2011-03-21 at the Wayback Machine Frank Fox. Accessed: 1 December 2009.
^Macintyre, Donald (2008-09-18). "Israel's forgotten hero: The assassination of Count Bernadotte–and the death of peace". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2015-09-25. Retrieved 2008-12-11.
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(née Beatrice Claflin, previously Breese) on 1 October 1928 Countess FolkeBernadotte, Countess af Wisborg (née Estelle Romaine Manville) on 1 December 1928...
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