A New England couple were honored Thursday at Washington`s Holocaust Memorial Museum for saving Eastern European Jews.Waitstill and Martha Sharp became the second and third U.S. citizens to be honored on the Rescuers Wall, the Providence Journal-Bulletin reported. They are also honored at the Yad Vashem memorial in Israel.
Sharp was a Unitarian Universalist Minister; his wife was a social worker. The couple spent months in Czechoslovakia in 1939, where they traded on the black market to acquire passports, which they used to help Jews get out.
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