The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation honoring a couple who helped Jews escape the Nazis. The bill passed Monday, 413-0. A Unitarian minister from Massachusetts, Waitstill Sharp, and his wife, Martha, arrived in Czechoslovakia a month before the German occupation and helped secure food, shelter and visas for Jewish refugees, according to a Boston Globe article.
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