Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War

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As part of the Americans and the Holocaust library program the Circle Cinema will be screening Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War Monday, May 4th at 7 p.m. followed by a conversation between with Dr. Nicole Kirk of the All-Souls Unitarian Church.  The event is free but registration will be required - click the 'buy tickets' button to reserve your FREE ticket today!

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War (2016) [1hr 16 min] is a documentary film directed by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky that tells the story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a Massachusetts minister and his wife who risked their lives in 1939 to save hundreds of refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe. The film highlights their clandestine, dangerous, and courageous mission.

Dr. Nicole Kirk is an Associate Professor and holds the Rev. Dr. J. Frank and Alice Schulman Chair of Unitarian Universalist History at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago and serves as Program Minister at All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa. A historian of American religion, she earned her PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and focuses her research and writing on business, religion, and material culture. Nicole is the author of Wanamaker's Temple: The Business of Religion in an Iconic Department Store (NYU Press, 2018, 2023) and has contributed chapters to several edited volumes. Currently, she is completing a second book on American railroad circuses and religion.