A Unitarian minister and his wife from the United States will be named Righteous Gentiles. The Rev. Waitstill Sharp and his wife, Martha, who helped save hundreds from the Nazis in Czechoslovakia, will receive the designation from Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial later this month.
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