Desperate Hours Press Quotes

• “Desperate Hours” is a truly unique work of documentary filmmaking, combining a compelling story with thorough historical research and outstanding directorial skills.”
  – Carol Bidault, Director and Founder – DCIFF



• “...relying much on eyewitness accounts for this mostly unaccounted history of unchartered heroism, fast-forwards the past through the eyes of survivors…and makes for a movie of timeless appeal”
  - Jewish Exponent



• “I strongly commend all those associated with the film “Desperate Hours”…directed and produced by Victoria Barrett… for helping to elucidate and publicize one of the most important chapters in the long, dramatic, and mutually rewarding history shared by the Jewish and Turkish peoples.”
  - Hon. Tom Lantos of California in the House of Representatives



• “In the annals of World War II heroism, Turkey’s work in saving over 20,000 European Jews has been neglected, a slight this refreshingly old fashioned documentary seeks to correct.”
  - Chuck Wilson, LA Weekly Review



• “My immediate reaction was: everyone must see this! … if it were not for a small crew of dedicated workers, we still would not have been able to bring this story out from the archives of forgotten history.”
  - Ayse Sumer, Editor in Chief – ATC Conference Magazine



• “Desperate Hours, a new documentary about Turkey’s role in the Holocaust, is proof that there are still stories to be told and people to be applauded.”
  - Jerusalem Post



• “Well written” with an “uplifting message of decency.”
  - The Washington Jewish Weekly