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

By Sponsor in Arts & Entertainment on Nov 25, 2015 6:00AM

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
November 30, 7pm
Congregation Beth Shalom
3433 Walters Avenue
Northbrook, IL 60062

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