https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh Made with wonder en-us 2019-04-08 14:51:07 UTC 2024-07-15 09:49:03 UTC hello@padlet.com nb998001471 https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349537007 Martha and Waitstill Sharp were American Unitarian aide workers. In 1939, distributing money and helping intellectuals escape to the United States.

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]]> 2019-04-08 14:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349537612 nb998001471 https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349538629 Martha and Waitstill Sharp became the second and third Americans honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations, a distinction granted to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.]]> 2019-04-08 14:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349538629 nb998001471 https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349541668 Less than a month after the Sharps arrived, the Nazis invaded and occupied Czechoslovakia. The Czech President, Emil Hácha, surrendered the country without resistance. The Sharps needed police assistance to enter their offices in Prague that morning, since the crowds gathered outside were so large. Waitstill had to make an announcement to clarify that their offices were not American territory, and that they were not an emigration or visa agency. During the chaos of the day—with Martha even talking down a man with a gun—the Sharps decided that Martha would focus on individual immigration cases, while Waitstill would focus on the relief projects they had actually been sent to facilitate.]]> 2019-04-08 15:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349541668 nb998001471 https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349547323 https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martha-and-waitstill-sharp]]> 2019-04-08 15:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349547323 nb998001471 https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349551039 This is an image of the sharps]]> 2019-04-08 15:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349551039 nb998001471 https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349551247 https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjD98zU5cDhAhXQmuAKHb96BQQQjhx6BAgBEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fjfr.org%2Frescuer-stories%2Fsharp-martha-and-waitstill%2F&psig=AOvVaw1rGZyIb0Vg3uKcR9i5AIwA&ust=1554823109238398 https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi9t4jO5sDhAhVshOAKHRqPATkQjhx6BAgBEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fprezi.com%2F5aozns_cb3vi%2Fheroes-of-the-holocaust%2F&psig=AOvVaw2HESNKuR2sV4LdjDil5398&ust=1554823371434694]]> 2019-04-08 15:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349551247 nb998001471 https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349625306 A resistor is someone who stands up for a cause and does not let things happen to them. During WW2 Jewish people were being persecuted by the Nazi government and some Jewish people felt like they had to fight back. ]]> 2019-04-08 17:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/nb998001471/szjf3uv4z7eh/wish/349625306