MAY 15TH, 2008
7.00 Pm
Location : Turkish Center, 821 United Nations Plaza, New York City
Desperate Hours Film Screening and Discussion:
An Evening with the Director"Victoria Barrett"
Desperate Hours tells the stories of those precious few who, in the face of utter darkness, never lost their sight. In telling these little known stories from WWII, the film documents this moment in time, when groups of Muslims, Jews and Christians all worked together to save lives.
Some of the areas explored in the film are:
How Turkish diplomats in France and Rhodes put their own lives at risk rescuing Jews of Turkish origin.
How Turkey recruited the talented men and women Hitler discarded to revamp Turkish sciences, architecture, music, medicine, legal education, and art.
How the Yishuv -Jews from Pre-State Israel- daringly used Turkey as a base to rescue Jews in locales such as the famous Pera Palace Hotel - terminus of the Orient Express
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