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#IDedicateThisWeekTo Martha and Waitstill Sharp, American Unitarian aide workers, who helped thousands of Jews, intellectuals, and children in Prague, Lisbon, and southern France in 1939–1940.
Yad Vashem honored the Sharps as Righteous Among the Nations in 2006.
Yad Vashem honored the Sharps as Righteous Among the Nations in 2006.
Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a Unitarian minister and his wife, a social worker, spent six months in Prague in 1939, distributing money and helping intellectuals escape to the United States.
Waitsill and Martha Sharp
After narrowly escaping arrest in Prague &returning home,the couple traveled to Lisbon &southern France to distribute food &to help Jews &intellectuals escape.Martha organized a transport of children to the U.S.,which became a model for later transports.
After narrowly escaping arrest in Prague &returning home,the couple traveled to Lisbon &southern France to distribute food &to help Jews &intellectuals escape.Martha organized a transport of children to the U.S.,which became a model for later transports.
Waitsill and Martha Sharp
The Sharps proved expert navigators of internat’l bureaucracy, securing coveted visas &departure tickets, including transatlantic passage for 27 imperiled children. They often worked apart..on the increasingly hazardous continent in a race to save lives
The Sharps proved expert navigators of internat’l bureaucracy, securing coveted visas &departure tickets, including transatlantic passage for 27 imperiled children. They often worked apart..on the increasingly hazardous continent in a race to save lives
Waitsill & Martha Sharp
“..w/war declared &the Germans closing in they escaped on the Queen Mary to NY, thru seas patrolled by U-Boats..They returned to their congregation, &their children in Wellesley, safe at home after saving hundreds of people.
And then they went back.
“..w/war declared &the Germans closing in they escaped on the Queen Mary to NY, thru seas patrolled by U-Boats..They returned to their congregation, &their children in Wellesley, safe at home after saving hundreds of people.
And then they went back.
Waitsill and Martha Sharp
Every one of us can be a part of institutions that make such heroism possible and in that measure can claim a degree of kinship with the righteous among the nations.
Every one of us can be a part of institutions that make such heroism possible and in that measure can claim a degree of kinship with the righteous among the nations.
