Desperate Hours Interviewees

• Dr. Stanford Shaw
  Professor of History - University of California, Los Angeles
• Suleyman Demirel
  Student of Refugee Professors Former Prime Minister and Ninth President of Turkey
• Isak Alaton
  Turkish Industrialist
• Harry Ojalvo
  Curator, The Quincentennial Foundation - Marking 500 Years of Jewish Life in Turkey
• Peter Englemann
  Son of Konrad Englemann Refugee Economic Advisor
• Dr. Turkan Rado
  Professor of Law (Emeritus), Istanbul University Assistant to Dr. Andreas Schwartz
• Supan Andic
  Student and Assistant to Dr. Fritz Neumark
• Barry Rubin
  Professor, Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan, Israel
• Mathias Neumark
  Son of Dr. Fritz Neumark Refugee Professor of Economics
• Dr. Martin Harwitz
  Son of Dr. Felix Harwitz Refugee Professor of Biochemisty
• Dr. Andreas Tietze
  Austrian Emigre Professor Assistant to Erich Auerbach
• Elfie Caron Alfandari
  Father Owned Anti-Nazi German Bookstore Istanbul
• Ozden Toker
  Daughter of Ismet Inonu Second President of Turkey
• Hasday Sedaka
  Turkish Jew Assisted in Rescue Efforts
• Ambassador Necdet Kent
  Consul, Turkish Consulate Marseilles
• Mine Ozdoganci
  Daughter of Fikret Ozdoganci Turkish Consul-General, Paris
• Stella Ventura
  Turkish Jew Rescued from France
• Ambassador Namik Yolga
  Consul, Turkish Consulate General Paris during WWII
• Refka Kaputso and Daughter
  Turkish Jews Rescued from France Now Living in Israel
• Lazar Russo
  Turkish Jew Rescued from France
• Albert Saul
  Turkish Jew Rescued from France
• Ozman Streater
  Grand-Nephew of Numan Menemencioglu Turkish Foreign Minister during WWII
• Dr. Mordecai Paldiel
  Head of Department of Righteous of the Nations of the Earth Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
• Rosa Levy Kosrovitsky
  Turkish Jew rescued from France Now Living in Israel
• Saphira Kapsuto Haas
  Turkish Jew Rescued from France Now Living in Israel
• Refka Kapsuto
  Turkish Jew Rescued from France Now Living in Israel
• Dr. Ephraim Zuroff
  Director of Simon Wiesenthal Center Jerusalem
• Dalia Offer
  Professor of Holocaust Studies Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• David Stoliar
  Struma Passenger
• Professor Yehuda Bauer
  International Institute for Holocaust Research Yad Vashem, Jerusalem
• Hon. Teddy Kollek
  Assigned to Turkey by Jewish Agency Mayor of Jerusalem 1965-1993
• Ambassador Turgut Menemencioglu
  Former Turkish Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations
• Dina Porat
  Professor of Jewish History Tel Aviv University
• Professor Alberto Melloni
  John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies Bologna, Italy
• Archbishop Luis Capovilla
  Personal Secretary to Pope John XXIII Milan, Italy
• Dr. Michael Berenbaum
  Holocaust Scholar
• Rabbi Irving Greenberg
  Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington, D. C.
• Cardinal William Keeler
  Archbishop of Baltimore Moderator for Catholic-Jewish Relations
• Dr. Eugene Fisher
  Associate Director for Ecumenical and Religious Affairs U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Ambassador Selahatin Ulkumen
  Turkish Consul-General, Rhodes Righteous Among the Nations of the Earth