Martha Sharp
Martha Ingham Dickie Sharp-Cogan (1905–1999) was an American philanthropist who, along with her husband Waitstill Sharp, helped hundreds of Jews to escape Nazi persecution by sending them off through Czechoslovakia.
Read more about Martha Sharp: Social Work, Foreign Affairs, Post World War II
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“Return to her? and fifty men dismissed?
No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose
To wage against the enmity o th air,
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl
Necessitys sharp pinch.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)