Showing posts with label 1948. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1948. Show all posts

June 16, 2007

Who was....Count Folke Bernadotte of Wisborg

clipped from en.wikipedia.org
Folke Bernadotte was the son of Oscar Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden)
Bernadotte's grandfather was King Oscar II of Sweden. Oscar married without the King's consent in 1888, however, thereby leaving the royal family
On 1 December 1928 he married Estelle Manville of Pleasantville, New York (1904-1984), a wealthy American heiress
World War II
vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross in 1945
he led a rescue operation transporting interned Norwegians, Danes and other western European inmates from German concentration camps to hospitals in Sweden. Around 15,000 people were taken to safety in the "White Buses" of the Bernadotte expedition, including between 6,500 and 11,000 Jews.
Assassination
Bernadotte was assassinated on 17 September 1948 by members of the Lehi group, sometimes known as the Stern Gang. The assassination was approved by the three-man Lehi 'center': Yitzhak Shamir, Natan Yellin-Mor, and Yisrael Eldad[
assassinated in Jerusalem in 1948
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