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Preview An Upcoming Documentary On The Sharps, Humanitarians In The Nazi Refugee Crisis

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Published Oct 8, 2015

Modified Oct 8, 2015

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In early 1939, Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a young Unitarian minister and social worker, moved to Prague and aided hundreds of refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. Join the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to preview selections of an upcoming documentary on the Sharps and to learn about their collection of personal papers that has been donated to the Museum.

Righteous Among Us: Two Who Defied the Nazis
Thursday, October 15, 7PM
The New School
The Auditorium at
66 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011

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