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    Waitstill Hastings Sharp (1 May 1902 – 25 February 1983) was an American Unitarian minister who was involved in humanitarian and relief work in Czechoslovakia...
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    social justice work with her first husband, a Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp, and others of her denomination, and so helped hundreds of refugees...
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  • Waitstill is a given name. Notable people with the name include: Waitstill R. Ranney (1791–1853), American physician and politician Waitstill Sharp (1902–1983)...
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  • Plimpton William Russell (1857-1896), 37th governor of Massachusetts Waitstill Sharp Daniel Willard Henry Wellesley Wild Mary Billings French Rockefeller...
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  • Nazis: Sharps' War is a 2016 documentary film directed by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky. The film is about the previously untold story of Waitstill and...
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    Marseille); Waitstill Sharp and Martha Sharp (a Unitarian minister and his wife who were in Europe on a similar mission as Fry). Waitstill Sharp volunteered...
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    He married Grace Hastings and the couple had four sons, including Waitstill Sharp. He was assistant librarian (1899–1902), assistant professor of English...
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    Eduardo Propper de Callejón United States 5 Varian Fry, Martha Sharp, Waitstill Sharp, Roddie Edmonds, Lois Gunden Estonia 3 Uku Masing 1,134,000 0.26...
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    Initially, Fry relied on the experienced Waitstill Sharp of the Unitarian Service Committee to help him. Sharp said he spent three days orienting Fry on...
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  • BBC Radio Three presenter Waitstill Sharp (1902–1984), American Unitarian minister and humanitarian Walter Benona Sharp (1870–1912), American oil drilling...
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    time.: 148  As exit visas could not be obtained, Fry and Unitarian Waitstill Sharp arranged for the Werfels to journey on foot across the Pyrenees into...
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    States, he published The Song of Bernadette in 1941. Fry and Unitarian Waitstill Sharp organized a secret crossing over the Pyrenees on foot. Assisted by...
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    television actor Dallas Lore Sharp, professor at Boston University, settled with his family (including Waitstill Sharp) in Hingham. He wrote magazine...
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  • American organization, began operating in Czechoslovakia in 1939. Waitstill and Martha Sharp were the Unitarian representatives. Two of the most important...
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  • Martha Sharp (1905–1999) – an American Unitarian who was named by the Yad Vashem organization as "Righteous Among the Nations." Waitstill Sharp (1902–1983)...
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    Jinnah Necdet Kent Aristides de Sousa Mendes Pope Pius XII Martha Sharp Waitstill Sharp Chiune Sugihara Raoul Wallenberg Abdullah Nur Abdel Rahman Azzam...
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    singer and translator Martha Sharp-Cogan (A.B. 1926) – humanitarian who, together with her first husband Waitstill Sharp, was one of only five Americans...
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    (Dolores) Martínez (2016)  United States 5 Varian Fry, Martha and Waitstill Sharp, Lois Gunden, and Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds  Estonia 3 Uku and...
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  • Frederick May Eliot, president of the Unitarian Service Committee, Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha flew to Europe and set up their operations at the...
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  • than take a hundred or so to America." Waitstill Sharp felt betrayed by his old friend, Dexter, and the Sharps continued their dual programs of aid and...
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    Pickett. AFSC. Alice Resch. AFSC. Andrée Saloman. OSE. Martha Sharp. USC. Waitstill Sharp. USC. Myles Standish was a Vice Consul in the Visa Section of...
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  • refugee camps scattered around southern France. Working with American Waitstill Sharp, Lowrie's initial efforts were to help in the escape from France of...
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  • Propper de Callejón, 2008 Clara M. Ambrus (Bayer), 2008 Martha and Waitstill Sharp, 2007 Khaled Abdelwahhab, 2007 Ernst Leitz II, 2007 Mefail and Njazi...
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    for Archaeology and the Ancient World. He is the grandson of Waitstill Sharp and Martha Sharp, who helped save hundreds of Jews and other refugees endangered...
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  • the ancient site of Petra in Jordan. Martha Sharp Joukowsky was the daughter of Waitstill Hastings Sharp and Martha Ingham Dickie, noted for aiding refugees...
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  • and the first American Unitarians to be posted there were Rev. Waitstill Hastings Sharp, a minister of the Unitarian Church in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts...
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  • Vice Consul Harry Bingham is an ally, as Bingham has worked with Waitstill and Martha Sharp, taking Feuchtwanger, Hannah Arendt, and Marc and Bella Chagall...
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    through the work of Chadwick, Warriner, Beatrice Wellington, Waitstill and Martha Sharp, Quaker volunteers such as Tessa Rowntree, and others who worked...
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