ANDREA GJESTVANG

Monrad Mosberg, 102 years old, was a naval officer on the S-class destroyer KNM Svenner. It was sunk at dawn on June 6, 1944, off Sword Beach, one of the Allied landing zones in Normandy, while supporting the British Army's Normandy landings. Mosberg was pronounced dead, but survived hours in the water and continued to fight until the end of the war.

Ragnar Ulstein, 99 years old, was a member of the famous Norwegian special forces unit Kompani Linge 1. After the war, he was an officer in the Independent Norwegian Brigade Group in Germany. He died in December 2019.

Signe Raassum, 95 years old, was a member of the "Osvald Group," a Norwegian sabotage organization. It carried out around 110 acts of sabotage. She died in June 2022.

Ivan Harry Vanje, 101 years old, took part in the liberation of Narvik and helped inflict the first defeat on Nazi Germany. The horrors of war left a lasting impression on him and made him a lifelong advocate for peace. He died in December 2019.

Olga Marianne Esbensen, 100 years old, risked her life to hide partisans in a barn in northern Norway.

Lars Bottolfs, 94 years old, was a member of the "Osvald Group", a Norwegian sabotage organization. He participated in the blowing up of a bridge that was intended as a sabotage target to prevent the transfer of German troops and military equipment between western and eastern Norway. Bottolfs died in April 2021.

In 1944, when the war broke out, Karsten Hansen, aged 94, was only 18, but already a central opponent of the war. He belonged to the Vaagårds Group, which was part of the Osvald Group, a famous Norwegian sabotage organization. Hansen was a prisoner on death row at Akershus Festning in Norway and was taken to Grini prison camp. He died in October 2022.

- You can hate a system, but I could never hate a person.

As a nurse with the Red Cross, Gerd Semb, 100 years old, could not choose whom she wanted to help. It was wartime, and she also had to help injured German soldiers. She showed her opposition to Nazism through her gloves: they were red, with King Haakon's royal insignia in white. After the war, she worked as a nurse in occupied Germany and in the Korean War. Semb died in February 2020.