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Defying the Nazis
- The Sharps' War
Engelsk Paperback
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Defying the Nazis
- The Sharps' War
Engelsk Paperback

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The official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film.

The little-known story of the Sharps, whose rescue missions across Europe during World War II saved the lives of countless Jews, refugees, and political dissidents—for readers of The Zookeeper’s Wife.


In 1939, the Reverend Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, a social worker, accepted a mission from the American Unitarian Association: they were to leave their home and young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to help address the mounting refugee crisis. Seventeen ministers had been asked to undertake this mission and had declined; Rev. Sharp was the first to accept the call for volunteers in Europe.

Armed with only $40,000, Waitstill and Martha quickly learned the art of spy craft and undertook dangerous rescue and relief missions across war-torn Europe, saving refugees, political dissidents, and Jews on the eve of World War II. After narrowly avoiding the Gestapo themselves, the Sharps returned to Europe in 1940 as representatives of the newly formed Unitarian Service Committee and continued their relief efforts in Vichy France.

A fascinating portrait of resistance as told through the story of one courageous couple, Defying the Nazis offers a rare glimpse at high-stakes international relief efforts during WWII and tells the remarkable true story of a couple whose faith and commitment to social justice inspired them to risk their lives to save countless others.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780807013021
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0807013021
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Udg. Dato:
29 aug 2017
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
223mm
Højde:
145mm
Forlag:
Beacon Press
Oplagsdato:
29 aug 2017
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