by Megan Finley | Feb 22, 2017 | European Saints, Historical Stories, Interesting Church Members
The following article by O. Håkan Palm first appeared on LDSLiving.com on February 14, 2017. Agnes Veronika Erdös and Gustav Palm experienced World War II under vastly different conditions: she as a prisoner in a concentration camp and he as an SS soldier. Amazingly,...
by Keith L. Brown | Jun 8, 2016 | European Saints
In February 1946, nine months after the close of a devastating world war, President Cornelius Zappey and his wife arrived from America among the war-tattered Dutch Saints to reorganize and revitalize the Netherlands Mission. Jacob Schipanboord, who served as the...
by dwhite | Aug 29, 2012 | European Saints
Gerhard and Harald Fricke, brothers and Latter-day Saints (“Mormons”) in Germany during World War II, each had trying experiences but remained faithful. On July 27, 1943, Operation Gomorrah annihilated Hamburg, Germany, where the Frickes lived with their family. It is...
by | Jun 14, 2010 | European Saints
After World War II, Germany was one of the most torn-apart countries. Despite the roll which Germany had played in World War II, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (commonly known as the Mormon Church) were concerned for all who had suffered in...
by Gale | May 18, 2010 | European Saints
Charles Dickens changed his opinion of the Mormons, once he met them in person. He visited a ship leaving England for America, full of Mormon emigrants leaving to gather with the Latter-day Saints.
by | Nov 4, 2009 | European Saints
This is an excerpt from a letter to the First Presidency regarding the condition of the European Saints after WWII by Ezra Taft Benson: “The general condition of the Saints is improving daily. Spiritually it has been good throughout the war and was perhaps never...
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