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Ravished Armenia (1918):: The story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian girl, who lived through the great massacres

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Ravished Armenia (1918):: The story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian girl, who lived through the great massacres

Aurora Mardiganian was the daughter of a prosperous Armenian family living in Chmshgatsak (â€¡emiÃ…Å¸gezek), twenty miles north of Harput, Ottoman Turkey. Witnessing the deaths of her family members and being forced to march over 1,400 miles, during which she was kidnapped and sold into the slave markets of Anatolia, Mardiganian escaped to Tiflis (modern Tbilisi, Georgia), then to St. Petersburg, from where she traveled to Oslo and finally, with the help of Near East Relief, to New York.

Ravished Armenia / Auction of Souls
In New York, she was approached by Harvey Gates, a young screenwriter, who helped her write and publish a narrative that is often described as a memoir titled Ravished Armenia (full title Ravished Armenia; the Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl, Who Survived the Great Massacres (1918).
The narrative Ravished Armenia was used for writing a film script that was produced in 1919, Mardiganian playing herself, and first screened in London as the Auction of Souls. The first New York performance of the silent film, entitled Ravished Armenia took place on February 16, 1919, in the ballroom of the Plaza Hotel, with society leaders,

Country	USA
Author	Aurora Mardiganian
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Kingfield Press, Inc
Manufacturer	Kingfield Press, Inc
NumberOfPages	148
PublicationDate	2014-01-31
Publisher	Kingfield Press, Inc
ReleaseDate	2014-01-31
Studio	Kingfield Press, Inc

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