Američtí zachránci ve stínu Nicholase Wintona
American Saviours in the Shadow of Nicholas Winton

Summary/Abstract: The heroes of the book "Vzdorovali nacistům: Sharpovi a jejich válka", originally published in English as "Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War" (Boston, Beacon Press 2016), are the Unitarian reverend Waitstill Sharp (1902–1985) and his wife, Martha Sharp (1905–1999) of Massachusetts. Both received outstanding credit for humanitarian missions commissioned by the American Unitarians to provide asylum, on the eve of and during the Second World War, to those at risk in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and Vichy France. The author of the book is the American publicist and documentary filmmaker Artemis Jukowsky, the Sharps’ grandson. In his biography he concludes that his grandparents saved at least 125 lives and significantly helped hundreds of others at risk. Jukowsky uncovers in a popular and readable style a fascinating story that remains in the shadow of Sir Nicholas Winton’s famed rescue mission, but much remains unsaid of the post-war fate of the Sharps and the story of their private lives.

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