Abelone Møgster

Abelone Karia Larsdatter Møgster (29 October 1883 – 25 November 1975) was a Norwegian businesswoman and war resister arrested by German Nazi occupiers during World War II. She survived three years in Nazi camps. She lived on the island of Møkster in the Austevoll Municipality.

Biography Abelone Møgster was born in Austevoll, Søndre Bergenhus, Norway, and started a general store in a boathouse in Vestrevågen on the island of Møkster in Austevoll in 1910. In the 1920s, she borrowed money to build a road to Naustvågen further south on the island to build a new store there, where she believed the harbor conditions were much better. After the road was built, she built a quay and a new general store in Naustvågen. This was ready in the latter part of the 1920s, probably in 1927. From this general store, she traded with "food and drink," as she herself called it. There, she also ran a fishing reception and regular boat expeditions for fishermen and the island's population. She remained unmarried. From there, the journey continued to the women's camp Ravensbrück concentration camp (Prisoner number: 20136) as a Nacht und Nebel (called NN-Deported) prisoner. At the turn of 1944/1945, she was transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, which was a pure extermination camp.

She died 25 November 1975 in Austevoll, Hordaland, Norway, where she was born.

At the turn of the millennium, Abelone Møgster was one of ten people nominated for the award as Westerner of the Century by the newspaper Bergens Tidende.

In 2011, the fishing vessel named in her honor, MS Abelone Møgster, was launched.