page_title: Folke Bernadotte
section_title: Awards and memorials
hierarchical_section_title: Folke Bernadotte / Assassination / Awards and memorials
caption_attribution_description: Denkmal Folke Bernadotte in Krusau / Dänemark
context_page_description: Folke Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg was a Swedish nobleman and diplomat. During 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.
context_section_description: In 1998, Bernadotte was posthumously awarded one of the first three Dag Hammarskjöld Medals, given to UN peacekeepers who are killed in the line of duty.
  The university library at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, US is named after him.
caption: Folke Bernadotte Memorial in Kruså, Denmark
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