Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff Explained

Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff
Birth Date:22 November 1922
Birth Place:Lille Ekkerøy, Norway
Death Place:Oslo, Norway
Partner:Anne Lise Bogdanoff
Children:Arvid Sigfred Bogdanoff
Mother:Signe Victoria Bogdanoff
Father:Jacob Wilhelm Bogdanoff

Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff (November 22, 1922 – June 1, 1971)[1] was a Norwegian who fought as Soviet-controlled partisan in eastern Finnmark in World War II[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] and, in 1953, he was one of two brothers who encountered and shot the last polar bear seen in Finnmark, at Lille Ekkerøy.[7] [8]

Part of the last generation to live on Lille Ekkerøy

Lille Ekkerøy">Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff was one of eleven children born to Signe Victoria Bogdanoff (1892–1963), née Dahl, from Tromsø, and Jacob Wilhelm Bogdanoff (1878–1940), whose father came from Russia. The other children included: Alfred; Francis; Olav (1917–2002); Karl (1916-1987); Frits (1915-1981); Ingvar (1920–1995), also known as Ingvald; Daniel (1931-1987); and Agnes (1933-2014). The children, three of whom died at an early age, were the last generation who lived on Lille Ekkerøy in Vadsø Municipality. They were evacuated during the war, moved to Krampenes, but returned and lived there until about 1953, when they moved back to Krampenes. As part of their subsistence tactics, they collected driftwood on the beach and picked cloudberries in the fields. Aksel married Anne Lise and, before their divorce, had a son called Arvid Sigfred Bogdanoff.[9] [10] [11]

Partisan service

After training as a radio operator in the Soviet Union, Bogdanoff, in April 1944, parachuted alone onto Kvaløya island and set up a radio bearing on the Torskefjord height between large stones. In connection with the Porsa action, he was captured and tortured by a German search party on 9 June 1944. He revealed nothing but he is supposed to have made some deal which the Germans honoured,[12] resulting in his survival.

Polar bear

In 1953, when Aksel and Ingvald Bogdanoff were out inspecting their salmon nets in the Lille Ekkeroy area, they encountered a polar bear which is believed to have come on an ice-floe from Svalbard.[13] [14] They shot and killed the bear. This is the last time that a polar bear was seen in Finnmark.[15] [16]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Obituary on geni.com . 5 June 2023 . no.
  2. Kåre Wahl, Partisanene Sibblund og Søderstrøm, 2002
  3. http://www.71nord.de/NoNoPartisanen.html Partisanen und Spione in Nord-Norwegen
  4. [Kjell Fjørtoft]
  5. Birger Bakken, Reidar T. Larsen, Arne Jørgensen og Åge Fjeld, Død over de tyske okkupanter - de norske kommunisters motstandskamp 1940-1945 (Death to the German occupiers! : The Norwegian Communist resistance 1940-1945),, Oslo 1998
  6. http://nkpmn.org/Historiesidene/tyskeokkupanter/TromsogFinnmark.html Troms og Finnmark
  7. Oddbjørn Gundersen, 53 år siden sist (53 years ago), Finnmarken, 19 May 2006
  8. http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=mediaphotopublic&rank=1&sbo=t&gsbco=5216%2CSweden&gsln=Bogdinoff All Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents results for Bogdinoff on Ancestry.com.au
  9. Private communication fromMonica Milch Gebhardt, a collections consultant and project manager in the museum in Vadsø, August 2012.
  10. http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=mediaphotopublic&rank=1&sbo=t&gsbco=5216%2CSweden&gsln=Bogdinoff All Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents results for Bogdinoff on Ancestry.com.au
  11. http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=mediaphotopublic&rank=1&sbo=t&gsbco=5216%2CSweden&gsln=Grunnett All Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents results for Grunnett on Ancestry.com.au
  12. http://www.71nord.de/NoNoPartisanen.html Partisanen und Spione in Nord-Norwegen
  13. Oddbjørn Gundersen, 53 år siden sist (53 years ago), Finnmarken, 19 May 2006
  14. http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=mediaphotopublic&rank=1&sbo=t&gsbco=5216%2CSweden&gsln=Bogdinoff All Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents results for Bogdinoff on Ancestry.com.au
  15. Oddbjørn Gundersen, 53 år siden sist (53 years ago), Finnmarken, 19 May 2006
  16. Robert Greiner, Fryktet det var isbjørn, Nordlys,19 May 2006

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