Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Extent and Medium
25,993 digital images, JPEG
29 microfilm reels, 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Martha Sharp
Archival History
Artemis Joukowsky
Acquisition
Funding Note: The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded Save Their Stories campaign.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received these papers on loan on April 4, 2007 from the grandson of Martha Sharp, Artemis Joukowsky, for the purpose of processing and reproduction. The Museum also received additional materials from the Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection on January 21, 2009 from Deborah Shaffer, director of the office of Journey to Freedom, LLC in New York. NY. Journey to Freedom had been working on a documentary film about Martha and Waitstill Sharp. In 2009 after digitization of materials, Artemis Joukowsky granted the Museum nonexclusive license to use the digital collection. Original records resided in the Museum on a loan until April 30, 2011, and after were transferred to the Brown University Library, according to Artemis Joukowsky decision.
Scope and Content
Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. Materials also document Martha Sharp’s postwar campaign for Congress, activities in Israel, continuing work for the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, family and personal life, and work with the Cogan Foundation and other charitable agencies. The collection includes Martha’s unpublished book manuscript Church Mouse and materials related to the posthumous preparation of a documentary film on both Sharps.The Israel’s National Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem, named Martha and Waitstill Sharp Righteous Among the Nations.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in five series: Series 1: Correspondence, Reports, Notes, etc…, bulk ca. 1937-2000 (Boxes 1-14; Folders 1-145). Series 2: Datebooks, ca. 1939-1959 (Boxes 15-25; Envelopes 1-49; 1 diary). Series 3: Case Files, ca. 1938-1940 (Boxes 26-29; Folders 1-27). Series 4: Publications and Related Materials, ca.1922-2005 (Boxes 30-44; Folders 1-109; Box 45, duplicates that were not filmed). Series 5: Photographs, ca.1905-2000 (Boxes 46-62; Photographs, postcards, 5 photographic binders, 5 albums, 6 scrapbooks, and 1 painted textile banner).
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Artemis Joukowsky
People
- Sharp, Monica.
- Cogan, David.
- Symington, Stuart,.
- Joy, Charles.
- Stebbins, Charles.
- Lowrie, Helen.
- Bacon, Yehuda, 1929-
- Sharp,Waitstill, 1902-1983.
- Fry, Varian, 1907-, Righteous Among the Nations.
- Gano, Seth.
- Mann, Heinrich.
- Stebbins, Edna.
- Lowrie, Donald.
- Sharp, Hastings.
- Werfel, Franz, 1890-
- Masaryk, Alice.
- Feigl, Eva Rosemarie, 1926-2009.
- Hruby, Blahasav.
- Dexter, Robert.
- Benes, Edvard.
- Sharp, Martha Dickie, 1905-1999.
- Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958.
- Masaryk, Jan.
- Sharp, Martha Content.
- Feuchtwanger, Marta.
Corporate Bodies
- Drancy (Internament camp)
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Subjects
- Jewish children--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Children--France.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czech Republic.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Czech Republic.
- Jewish children--Pictorial works.
- Czech Republic--History.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--France.
- Palestine--Emigration and immigration.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- Prisoners--France--Drancy--1940-1950.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
- Europe--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- France--History.
Genre
- Letters.
- Case files.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Diaries.
- Document
- Photographs.
- Albums.
- Drawings.