Waitstill and Martha Sharp supervise the arrival of 14 tons of milk products to distribute to children in the region. Pau, France, August 1940. Photograph »

Martha Sharp stands next to her milk distribution center in Pau, France, 1940-1941. Photograph »

Studio portrait of Martha Sharp. Photograph »

Studio portrait of Waitstill Sharp. Photograph »

Portraits of Martha and Waitstill Sharp from an unknown newspaper. Published before they left for Europe on a relief mission with the Unitarian Service Committee. Photograph »

French children wait in line to receive assistance from the Unitarian Service Committee in France. Ca. 1939-1941. Photograph »

Lion Feuchtwanger aboard the ship Excalibur, arriving in New York. October 1940. Photograph »

Polish-Jewish refugees seeking to leave Europe arrive in Lisbon. Following the German invasion of France, Jewish and non-Jewish refugee assistance organizations relocated their headquarters to Lisbon, the only neutral European port from which refugees could depart to North and South America. Lisbon, Portugal, June 21-22, 1940. Photograph »

Lena-Helene Klizman (b. 1930) stands in front of the door to a nursery school in France sponsored by the Unitarian Service Committee and the OSE. This photograph was taken in Rivesaltes in 1942. Photograph »

Margot Stein and Mrs. Zimmer, the wife of a physician of the Unitarian Service Committee, examine a document in their office at the Hotel Bompard internment camp. Margot Stein (later Samuel) was born in Germany and fled to France in 1933. After being herself interned in Gurs, she was released through the efforts of OSE and served as a child-care and aide worker for the Unitarian Service Committee. Photograph taken in Marseilles, France, 1941-1942. Photograph »