Swedish Red Cross bus - Jerusalem, Israel
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N 31° 46.405 E 035° 10.430
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The white Volvo No.38 bus, one of dozens of vehicles used to rescue Jewish prisoners in late WW II by Count Folk Bernadotte, vice president of the Swedish Red Cross, on display in an open space on Mount Memory, Jerusalem.
Waymark Code: WM1569M
Location: Israel
Date Posted: 10/24/2021
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"Towards the end of Word War II when Nazi Germany's defeat became inevitable, Count Folke Bernadotte, representing the Swedish Red Cross, reached an agreement with top SS leaders, for the release of a number of prisoners from German Concentration Camps. This is one of 36 busses of the Swedish Red Cross which managed to enter Germany on March and April 1945 and transported 25,000 prisoners, among them several thousand Jews, mainly women, from Germany to Sweden.
The ambulance was donated by the Swedish Israeli Friendship Society."
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