Facing History and Ourselves

Community Conversation featuring Journey to Freedom Film Preview & Conversation with Producer Artemis Joukowsky

Event Date:02/17/2010Event Fee:$Free
Event Time:7:00pm
Location:Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
Cleveland, OH

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Join us for a film preview of Journey to Freedom, which tells the story of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister from Massachusetts, and his wife Martha, a social worker, helped feed and shelter thousands of refugees and assisted anti-Nazi dissidents and Jews as they escaped to safety, first in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and later in France. The Sharps’ compelling story, told in the film Journey to Freedom, reveals a largely unknown chapter of Holocaust history and provides a new perspective on America’s relationship to it. The evening will include a conversation with the film's producer, and grandson of the Martha and Waitstill Sharp, Artemis Joukowsky.



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