White Buses rescue mission

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/White_Buses_rescue_mission
GPTKB entity
Statements (48)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf humanitarian
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs Vita bussarna
gptkbp:commemoratedBy memorials in Germany
memorials in Denmark
memorials in Sweden
gptkbp:date April 1945
March 1945
gptkbp:documentedIn books
documentaries
museum exhibitions
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label White Buses rescue mission
gptkbp:leader gptkb:Folke_Bernadotte
gptkbp:notableFor negotiations with Nazi authorities
saving Jews and other prisoners
gptkbp:numberOfPeopleRescued over 15,000
gptkbp:organizedBy gptkb:Swedish_Red_Cross
gptkb:Danish_Red_Cross
gptkbp:purpose rescue concentration camp prisoners
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Holocaust
gptkb:World_War_II
Swedish humanitarian efforts
gptkbp:rescuedBy gptkb:Sachsenhausen
gptkb:Auschwitz
gptkb:Buchenwald
gptkb:Dachau
gptkb:Schleswig-Holstein
gptkb:Mauthausen
gptkb:Nazi_concentration_camps
gptkb:Ravensbrück
gptkb:Theresienstadt
gptkb:Gross-Rosen
gptkb:Neuengamme
other nationalities
Scandinavian prisoners
gptkbp:resultedIn transport of survivors to Denmark
transport of survivors to Sweden
gptkbp:supportedBy gptkb:Heinrich_Himmler
gptkb:Swedish_government
gptkb:Danish_government
gptkbp:symbol white buses with red crosses
gptkbp:tookPlaceIn gptkb:Austria
gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkbp:vehicleType ambulances
trucks
private cars
white-painted buses
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Folke_Bernadotte
gptkbp:bfsLayer 8