Martha and Waitstill Sharp became the second and third Americans to be named to Yad Vashem’s Righteous. The Boston couple left the United States in 1939 to travel to Europe where they aided nearly 2,000 Jewish refugees as they fled Nazi persecution.
Martha and Waitstill Sharp became the second and third Americans to be named to Yad Vashem’s Righteous. The Boston couple left the United States in 1939 to travel to Europe where they aided nearly 2,000 Jewish refugees as they fled Nazi persecution.