PBS Specials

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War (2016x2)

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Tells the story of a daring rescue mission that occurred on the precipice of World War II. The previously untold account of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, an American minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their parish and boldly committed to a life-threatening mission in Europe. Over two dangerous years they helped save scores of imperiled Jews and refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation across Europe.