Katy and E. Don Walker, Sr. Education Center to Show Documentary, Two Who Dared
Huntsville, TX (PRWEB) October 17, 2013 -- In February 1939, Waitstill Sharp, a young Unitarian minister from Boston, and his wife Martha left for Czechoslovakia on a refugee mission just days prior to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia. Who were these American heroes? What drove their willingness to put the wellbeing of strangers over that of themselves and their family?
Two Who Dared: The Sharps’ War, a film that was ten years in the making, is now being released through a grassroots effort at churches, synagogues and theaters across the country and worldwide. Find out more at http://www.twowhodared.com
Of special note is the upcoming screening on Wednesday, October 23rd at 7:00 pm, when the Katy and E. Don Walker, Sr. Education Center will screen the film. The screening is sponsored by the Thoreau Woods Unitarian Universalist Church of Hunstville, TX and is FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC.
The Katy and E. Don Walker, Sr. Education Center is located at 1400 19th Street
Huntsville, Texas 77340.
Donations are being accepted at this screening to help support the film and its continued viewership, so please, pass the hat! (suggested donations are $5).
For more information, please contact Anne True at (936) 435-0450.
We are so grateful to the community at large and could not have gotten this far without our partnerships with Brown University, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (http://www.uusc.org/founders), Yad Vasham, the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Anti-Defamation League, Simon Wiesenthal and our educational partner Facing History and Ourselves. Together we have developed a curriculum for teachers and students, which includes a 35 minute educational version of the film. To access the free curriculum visit the Facing History and Ourselves website at (http://twowhodared.facinghistory.org/).
For more information, please visit the website:
http://www.twowhodared.com
Anna Pinchuk, No Limits Media Inc., 508-650-2077, [email protected]
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