Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War

Title: Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War Author: Artemis Joukowsky ISBN: 9780807071823 Publisher: Beacon Press Published: 2016 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine E 1638368 Publisher Description: The little-known story of the Sharps whose rescue and relief missions across Europe during World War II saved the lives of countless Jews, refugees, and political dissidents. Official companion to the Ken Burns PBS film. For readers captivated by the story of Antonina Zabinski as told in The Zookeeper's Wife and other stories of rescue missions during WWII, Defying the Nazis is an essential read. 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, Czechos