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   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 ...

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   • Known for: humanitarian rescue work before and during World War II

   • Children: 2, including Martha Sharp Joukowsky

2. encyclopedia.ushmm.org › content › enMartha and Waitstill Sharp | Holocaust Encyclopedia

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   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 ...

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   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 ...

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   • 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.

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   Is Waitstill Sharp dead or still alive?

   • Waitstill Sharp passed away in 1983. Martha Sharp Cogan died in 1999. In 1963, Yad Vashem established the title of Righteous Among the Nations to honor non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. In 2006, Martha and Waitstill Sharp were the second and third US citizens, after Varian Fry, to receive this designation.

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   • 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.

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   • Nevertheless, the Sharps agreed that Martha would focus on individual immigration cases, while Waitstill would focus on the relief projects they had been sent to facilitate. For the next six months, the Sharps' work was divided between relief and emigration assistance.

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5. www.harvardsquarelibrary.org › biographies › marthaSharp, Waitstill and Martha Sharp Cogan (1902-1984; 1905-1999)

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   A biography of the couple who served as Unitarian missionaries in Czechoslovakia during World War II, risking their lives to help the Jews and other refugees. Learn about their backgrounds, their work, their challenges, and their legacy.

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6. exhibitions.ushmm.org › martha-waitstill-sharpMartha and Waitstill Sharp Two Rescue Missions | Americans ...

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   A personal story of two rescue missions by Unitarian minister and social worker in Prague, Lisbon, and France during World War II. Learn how they distributed money, food, and humanitarian aid to Jews and other refugees, and organized a transport of children to the United States.

7. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org › waitstill-andWaitstill and Martha Sharp - Jewish Virtual Library

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   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 ...

8. www.ssbjcchec.org › martha-and-waitstill-sharpMARTHA AND WAITSTILL SHARP | HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL EDUCATION CENTER

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   Learn how the minister and his wife from the Unitarian church in Wellesley, Massachusetts, helped hundreds of people escape from Nazi persecution in Europe during World War II. They were Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem and founded the Unitarian Service Committee.