Photo Gallery Utøya One Year On
Marcel Gleffe (pictured here in an archive photo from July 2011) is a German roofer. He was camping on Utøya island at the time of Anders Breivik's deadly shooting spree. He was able to rescue 20 to 30 youths from the water. Since then, the 33-year-old man has traveled several times to Utøya in order to try to come to terms with his experiences there.
Oddvar Hansen also pulled youths out of the water at Utøya. In addition, he used his boat to deliver police to the island when special forces had problems with their own boat. On the anniversary of the attacks, he will receive a visit from two of the youngsters he saved.
Candles are laid on a rock on Utøya in commemoration of the dead. Breivik killed 69 people on the island, most of them youths who were participating in a summer camp for Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's center-left Labor Party.
The MS Thorbjørn ferry makes a stop at Utøya. A few youths were able to flee the island on the boat. The ship actually had room for dozens of people. Among those on board were Eskil Pedersen, the chairman of the Labor Party's youth group. He was also a victim of the attacks, but he still faced criticism for allowing the ferry to leave with only nine people on board. In a recently published book, another survivor wrote that the ferry was the only hope for many youths on the island.
An aerial photo of Utøya: The island had once been a vacation paradise.
Silent memorial: A rose is laid in honor of the dead at the entrance to the cafeteria on Utøya.
The place that changed everything. In August, survivors of the attack visited Utøya, just a few weeks after the massacre.
