On this episode of Our American Stories, in 1939, as Hitler tightened his grip on Europe, between 88 and 94 percent of Americans opposed entering the war. Martha and Waitstill Sharp were part of the small minority who believed they couldn't look away. Leaving behind their children and the safety of home, they traveled into Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to rescue people marked for persecution.

In the first installment of our 6 Percent series, Deborah Dwork, author of Saints and Liars, shares the extraordinary true story of two ordinary Americans whose faith drove them to risk imprisonment, torture, and even death before the United States entered World War II.

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