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...
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International Red Cross and Girl Scout movement. She married Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish member of a United Nations mediating team. He was assassinated...
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The Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) (Swedish: Folke Bernadotteakademin) is the Swedish government agency for peace, security and development. FBA conducts...
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were among the several thousand Jews rescued by an operation led by Folke Bernadotte of the Swedish Red Cross who organized the transporting of interned...
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more terrorist act, the assassination of Folke Bernadotte some months later, an act condemned by Bernadotte's replacement as mediator, Ralph Bunche. After...
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Count Folke Bernadotte to the Third Session of the United Nations General Assembly. It was published on September 16, 1948, one day before Bernadotte was...
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Sofia Fleetwood (1892–1936) Elsa Victoria Cedergren (1893–1996) Count Folke Bernadotte af Wisborg (1895–1948) He was the last surviving son of Oscar II. Swedish...
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(1904–1984), wife of Folke Folke Bernadotte (1895–1948), Swedish statesman Bernadotte Perrin (1847–1920), American classicist Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (1886–1969)...
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and planned the September 17, 1948, assassination of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, who was representing the United Nations Security Council as a mediator...
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Count of Wisborg (redirect from Count Bernadotte)
included in the title, Count Bernadotte af Wisborg. The most well-known is Folke Bernadotte, a son of Oscar Bernadotte, the first Count of Wisborg. He...
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[bɛʁnadɔt]. "Bernadotte". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins. Retrieved 27 April 2019. "Bernadotte, Folke" (US)...
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Yehoshua Cohen (section Assassination of Bernadotte)
a Zionist militant group, who assassinated United Nations envoys Folke Bernadotte and André Sérot on September 17, 1948. Cohen was never charged for...
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Yehosúa ben Yosef Yehoshua Cohen (1922-1986), assassin of Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte Yehoshua Leib Diskin (1818–1898), Lithuanian rabbi, Talmudist and Biblical...
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1948 Arab–Israeli War (section UN mediator Bernadotte)
Folke Bernadotte and a team of UN Observers made up of army officers from Belgium, United States, Sweden and France.[better source needed] Bernadotte...
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Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte, Geulah Cohen had no regrets. As a broadcaster on Lehi's radio, she recalled the threats against Bernadotte in advance of...
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ice hockey player Folke Bergman (1902–1946), Swedish explorer and archaeologist Folke Bernadotte (1895–1948), Swedish diplomat Folke Bohlin (musicologist)...
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between Israel and Arab states, continuing the efforts of UN Mediator Folke Bernadotte, following his assassination. Of the 58 members of the United Nations...
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continued on by land on the white buses to Denmark. Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte and others negotiated the White Buses operation with German officials...
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refugee problem was a fact and possible solutions were discussed. Count Folke Bernadotte said on 16 September: No settlement can be just and complete if recognition...
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was initially formulated on 27 June 1948 by United Nations mediator Folke Bernadotte. Proponents of the right of return hold that it is a human right, whose...
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of Norway served as bridesmaids while Count Gustaf Bernadotte of Wisborg, son of Folke Bernadotte, was a ring bearer. The King of Sweden, the bride's...
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the government. Following the assassination of UN Envoy for Peace Folke Bernadotte by Lehi in September 1948, the Israeli government determined to immediately...
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known worldwide include Joe Hill, Carl Skoglund, Raoul Wallenberg, Folke Bernadotte, Dag Hammarskjöld, Olof Palme, Carl Bildt, Hans Blix, and Anna Lindh...
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Minister of Sweden Karl Staaff (1860–1915), Prime Minister of Sweden Folke Bernadotte (1895–1948), diplomat August Blanche (1811–1868), writer, publicist...
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Himmler tried to negotiate a surrender to the western Allies via Count Folke Bernadotte. Burgdorf took part in Hitler's court-martial of Hermann Fegelein,...
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of the United Nations plan for the partition of Palestine in 1947. Folke Bernadotte, a Swede, was a United Nations mediator in the Arab–Israeli conflict...
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dancing teacher Estelle Bennett, American singer (the Ronettes) Estelle Bernadotte (1904–1984), Countess of Wisborg Estelle Blackburn, award-winning Australian...
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the Western Allies, primarily via the head of the Swedish Red Cross, Folke Bernadotte, who was in Berlin at the same time. Beevor adds the comment that Himmler...
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Germany. In 1945,[citation needed] she was rescued and released by Count Folke Bernadotte. This led to a friendship between the two men. In 1944, Captain Sérot...
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foundation started a scholarship program in Catalán's memory. In 2020, the Folke Bernadotte Academy was asked by the Swedish Government to establish a scholarship...
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