Boston University (B.A., 1924)[3] Harvard Law (LL.B., 1926)[1][4] Harvard University (M.A., 1931)[1]
Occupation
Unitarian minister
Known for
humanitarian rescue work before and during World War II
Spouses
Martha Sharp
(m. 1927; div. 1954)
Monica Allard Clark
(m. 1955)
[5]
Children
2, including Martha Sharp Joukowsky[6]
Righteous Among the Nations
The Holocaust
Rescuers of Jews
Righteousness
Seven Laws of Noah
Yad Vashem
By country
Austrian
Croatian
German
Hungarian
Lithuanian
Norwegian
Polish (list)
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Waitstill Hastings Sharp (1 May 1902– 25 February 1983) was a Unitarian minister who was involved in humanitarian and relief work in Czechoslovakia and Southern Europe during World War II.[7] In 2005, Sharp and his first wife Martha were named by Yad Vashem as Righteous among the Nations, the second and third of five Americans to receive this honor.
^ abc"Martha and Waitstill Sharp: A Timeline of their Lives", Two Who Dared, film website
^Di Figlia, Ghanda. "Martha Sharp Cogan (1905–1999) and Waitstill Sharp (1902–1983): Unitarian Service Committee Pioneers". Harvard Square Library. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
^"Martha and Waitstill Sharp Collection, ca. 1905–2005", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
^Ancestry.com. U.S. Public Records Index, 1950–1993, Volume 1 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, US: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
^Nick Anderson (19 September 2016). "They risked their lives to rescue scores of people from the Nazis. Few knew their story until now". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409.
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