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Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp Cogan (April 25, 1905 – December 6, 1999) was an American Unitarian who was involved in humanitarian and social justice work with her first husband, a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and others of her denomination, and so helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution, through relocation and other efforts.
- Hastings Sharp (b. 1932), Martha Content Sharp Joukowsky (b. 1937)
- James Edward Ingham, Elizabeth Alice Whelan
- Rescue of children in World War II Europe
- Martha Alice Dickie, April 25, 1905, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Mar 8, 2024 · Martha and Waitstill Sharp, American Unitarian aid workers, helped thousands of people escape Nazi persecution in 1939–1940. Among those they helped were Jews, intellectuals, and children in Prague, Lisbon, and southern France. In recognition of the risks they took to assist Jews, Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance ...
Waitstill and Martha Sharp, 1939. 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.
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May 24, 2016 · The 90-minute film tells the story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a Unitarian minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and...
Two Rescue Missions. Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister, and his wife Martha, a social worker, spent six months in Prague in 1939, distributing money and helping intellectuals escape to the United States.
Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp Cogan (April 25, 1905 – December 6, 1999) was an American Unitarian who was involved in humanitarian and social justice work with her first husband, a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and others of her denomination, and so helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution, through relocation and other efforts.
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 ...
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