VG HELG MAGAZINE: 

THE LAST WITNESSES OF WORLD WAR II, 2019 - 2020

– It was you or me. You or me. Who do you choose? I did it for the country. And for all my friends who were killed. We had to give and take orders. No one in war has clean hands. You have blood on your hands. It will come back to you. 

Words by Ivan Harry Vanje, 101, September 2019. He passed away three months later.


For this work I traveled through Norway to portray some of the last witnesses of the Second World War.Men and women who risked their lives to protect our country and freedom. Some of the veterans were active in sabotage groups, others worked as nurses and some fought at the front lines. Since I finished the series, half of the witnesses I met are no longer alive. But their stories live on.

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