Martha Sharp

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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    “I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment,
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