Holocaust

These American Holocaust Rescuers Are Remembered in Ken Burns’s New Film

Documentarian Ken Burns, known for award-winning films like Jazz and Baseball (and bad haircuts), now turns his sights on an untold chapter of Holocaust history: the extraordinary story of Americans Waitstill and Martha Sharp, Unitarians who set out for Czechoslovakia in 1939 to smuggle out Nazi targets, including children, and mastermind complex operations. In classic […]

By Zachary Solomon

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New Ken Burns film spotlights little-known Holocaust rescuers

“Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War” is a documentary about a Christian couple who left a quiet life in New England, traveled to Nazi-occupied Europe and smuggled hundreds of Jews to safety.

September 8, 2016 5:35 pm