Martha Sharp presents a trainload of powdered milk to the mayor of Pau, France, 1940.
Martha Sharp and a group of twenty-seven children before their journey from France to New York City, 1940.
A woman believed to be Martha Sharp (middle) in nursery in Pau, France, during the Milk Distribution Project run by the Unitarian Service Committee, 1940.
Portrait of Martha Sharp from her congressional campaign, 1944.
From left: Martha Sharp, Hastings Sharp, Waitstill Sharp, and Martha Content Sharp, 1944.
Martha Sharp during her congressional campaign, 1944.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ARTEMIS JOUKOWSKY is an author, filmmaker, and socially conscious venture capitalist. He is the grandson of Waitstill and Martha Sharp and has spent decades researching his grandparents’ heroic rescue missions in Europe. He is also codirector, with Ken Burns, of the companion PBS documentary film Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War.
BEACON PRESS
Boston, Massachusetts
www.beacon.org
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are published under the auspices of
the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
© 2016 by Artemis Joukowsky
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Text design and composition by Kim Arney
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Joukowsky, Artemis, author.
Title: Defying the Nazis : the Sharps’ war / Artemis Joukowsky.
Description: Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2016] | 2016 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016007704 (print) | LCCN 2016008561 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780807071823 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780807071830 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Sharp, Waitstill, 1902–1984. | Sharp Cogan, Martha,
1905–1999. | Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust—Massachusetts—Wellesley
Hills. | World War, 1939–1945—Jews—Rescue. | Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)
Classification: LCC D804.66.S48 J68 2016 (print) | LCC D804.66.S48 (ebook) |
DDC 940.53/180922—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016007704
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