At that ceremony we were joined by family members of the Sharps in honoring the memory of this distinguished husband and wife team. Mr. Speaker. on that same day The Washington Post wrote an article about the Sharps. calling them "The Couple Who Fought Genocide" and I would like to share with my colleagues excerpts from that article: "As the Nazis marched across Europe in 1939 and 1940. a Unitarian minister from Massachusetts and his wife rushed into the coming Holocaust to save Jews and other refugees. including scores of children. When they set out for Europe in January 1939. Germany had seized the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia and refugees were flowing across the continent. The American Unitarian Association asked numerous ministers to go to Europe before Waitstill. 37. and his social worker wife. Martha. 33. agreed.
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