Elfriede Glasnerová Vanecková — Freed by American Soldiers on the Day of Her Scheduled Execution

Elfriede (Frieda) Glasnerová Vanecková, a Jewish convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in Czechoslovakia, was imprisoned during World War II because of her Jewish heritage. She and her two sons were scheduled to be killed by their captors. On the very day she was to be executed, American soldiers arrived and freed her and her sons. She was found in a hospital in serious condition but survived. Her husband, who had been placed in a camp for non-Jewish prisoners, was also freed. When mission president Wallace Toronto returned to Czechoslovakia after the war, locating the missing Glasnerová family was among his first priorities. The family's survival against the planned execution, on the precise day of their scheduled death, stands as a remarkable account of divine deliverance during the Holocaust.