and i had the good sense to use marina goldman. story is told without our traditional narration. it is first person voices. a couple of historians and then the witnesses who were children now in their late 80's who were saved by the sharps and they remind you not only of the heroic nature of the story in the sacrifice of the sharps but its resonance to today with the refugee crisis we have but also of human potentiality because they were saved, they got to live lives. those lives are rich and full and they are professors emeritus of mathematics or french or russian. but it reminds you of the people who were not saved. the 6 million, the opaque 6 million who we can never penetrate, each one of them could have been that. and so like an amputated limb, that you feel long after it is gone, we felt that this tiny little story at the edges of the holocaust could reveal it just as the structure of an atom looks like the solar system. that we could take this atomic story of his grandparent and if we told it right, we could suddenly relate

and marina goldman. is --first-person void voices. couple of historians and then the witnesses who are -- who were children now in their late 80's who were saved by the sharps and they remind you not only of the heroic nation of -- nature of the story in the sacrifice of the sharps but its residents to today with the refugee crisis we have but also of human potentiality because they were saved, they got to live lives. those lives are rich in full and ofy are professors emeritus mathematics or french or russian. it reminds you of the people who were not saved. the opaque 6 million who we can never penetrate, each one of them could have been that. like in an pt did limb that you feel long after it is gone, we felt that this tiny little story at the edges of the holocaust could reveal it just as the structure of an adam looks like the solar system. that we could take this atomic story of his grandparent and if we told it right, we could suddenly relate to a much larger situation. charlie: if someone wants to compare what they did to schi

marina goldman as martha sharp: every life we touched had its own drama.hat you have done for us." woman: i owe mrs. sharp my life. annoby membersding of the better angels society, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating americans about their history through documentary film. the better angels society, telling america's stories. contributors include jan and rick cohen and jonathan and jeannie lavine.