Defying The Nazis: The Sharp’s War, a 2016 documentary by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky, tells the story of Martha and Waitstill Sharp, who made the extraordinary choice to risk their lives in relief and rescue work in Europe in 1939 and 1940.  After 17 other couples had refused the invitation to volunteer to head a committee to aid refugees in Prague, the Sharps, from Wellesley, MA, accepted.  They are 2 of only 5 Americans (including Ridgewood’s Varian Fry) named by Israel’s Yad Vashem as “Righteous Among the Nations” (non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust).  The film interviews some whose lives were saved, and the Sharps’ own children whose lives were changed.

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