Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Defying the Nazis : the Sharps' war / a co-production of No Limits Media, Inc. and Florentine Films, in association with WETA, Washington, DC ; directors, Ken Burns, Atremis Joukowsky III ; producers, Ken Burns, Matthew Justus.

Publisher, Date:

Arlington, VA : PBS, [2016]

Description:

1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

Tells the never-before-told story 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 dissidents and refugees fleeing the Nazi occupation across Europe.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: TVPG.

Subjects:

Sharp, Waitstill, 1902-1984.

Sharp Cogan, Martha, 1905-1999.

Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Massachusetts -- Wellesley Hills.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Genre:

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.