Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff

Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff
Born(1922-11-22)November 22, 1922
Lille Ekkerøy, Norway
DiedJune 1, 1971(1971-06-01) (aged 48)
Oslo, Norway
PartnerAnne Lise Bogdanoff
ChildrenArvid Sigfred Bogdanoff
Parents
  • Jacob Wilhelm Bogdanoff (father)
  • Signe Victoria Bogdanoff (mother)

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]

  1. ^ "Obituary on geni.com" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 5 June 2023.
  2. ^ Kåre Wahl, Partisanene Sibblund og Søderstrøm, 2002
  3. ^ Partisanen und Spione in Nord-Norwegen
  4. ^ Kjell Fjørtoft, Lille Moskva – den glemte krigen (Little Moscow - the forgotten war), ISBN 8205147256, 1983. A book about the partisans in Finnmark and their fate during and after the war which led to a documentary film of the same name that won awards at film festivals in Moscow and Kraków. Bogdanoff is among the list of partisans which starts on p. 202.
  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), ISBN 8299485908, Oslo 1998
  6. ^ Troms og Finnmark, an excerpt from Død over de tyske okkupanter - de norske kommunisters motstandskamp 1940-1945
  7. ^ Oddbjørn Gundersen, 53 år siden sist (53 years ago), Finnmarken, 19 May 2006
  8. ^ All Public Member Photos & Scanned Documents results for Bogdinoff on Ancestry.com.au