A new Ken Burns & Artemis Joukowsky film PBS, Tuesday, Sep. 20, 9 pm

Waitstill Sharp was a minister in the Unitarian church in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and his wife Martha a noted social worker. In 1939, the Sharps accepted an invitation by the Unitarian Service Committee to help members of the Unitarian church in Czechoslovakia. Arriving in Prague in February 1939, the Sharps also aided a number of Jews to leave the country, which had come under Nazi control on March 15th. The Sharps continued their charitable work until August 1939, leaving Prague when warned of their possible arrest by the Gestapo. … Yad Vashem decided on September 9, 2005 to confer upon the late Waitstill and Martha Sharp the title of Righteous Among the Nations.[1]

Actor Tom Hanks and humanitarian Marina Goldman lend their voices to the title characters of this remarkable film.[2]

[1] The Righteous Among the Nations, http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/stories/sharp.asp

[2] InQuisiTV, KCTS9, Viewer Guide, Sept. 2016