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  1. Waitstill Hastings Sharp (1 May 1902– 25 February 1983) was a Unitarian minister who was involved in humanitarian and relief work in Czechoslovakia and Southern Europe during World War II. [7] In 2005, Sharp and his first wife Martha were named by Yad Vashem as Righteous among the Nations, the second and third of five Americans to receive ...

  2. Mar 8, 2024 · Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister, and his wife Martha, a social worker, traveled from Massachusetts to Prague in 1939. There, they distributed money and helped intellectuals escape to the United States. The couple later went to Lisbon and southern France to distribute food, and to help Jews and intellectuals escape. Martha also organized a ...

  3. Waitstill Sharp was a minister in the Unitarian church in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and his wife Martha a noted social worker. In 1939, the Sharps accepted an invitation by the Unitarian Service Committee to help members of the Unitarian church in Czechoslovakia. Arriving in Prague in February 1939, the Sharps also aided a number of Jews to leave the country, which had come under Nazi control ...

  4. Martha and Waitstill Sharp were a Unitarian minister and his wife who volunteered to help refugees fleeing from Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia in 1939. They worked with the Unitarian Service Committee, the Quakers, and other groups to provide relief, rescue, and resettlement for thousands of people.

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  5. Learn how the Unitarian couple helped hundreds of refugees escape Nazi persecution in Europe before and during World War II. They distributed money, food, and visas, and organized a children's transport to the US.

  6. Waitstill and Martha Sharp. In February 1939, Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister from Boston, and his wife Martha left for Czechoslovakia on a refugee mission. For months the Unitarian Church had been receiving alarming reports from Prague over the plight of refugees.The Sharps arrived in Prague, home to the largest Unitarian church in ...

  7. Learn how the Sharps, a minister and a social worker, helped hundreds of people escape from Nazi persecution in Europe during World War II. They were honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in Israel in 2006.

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