Armenian Genocide: Μovie "Auction of Souls"- The story of Aurora Mardiganian ...

 The Genozied of Armenians is unpunished until now...

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Αδιαμφισβήτητες ευθύνες στην Τουρκία, καταλογίζουν πρόσφατες μελέτες οι οποίες αποδεικνύουν περίτρανα ότι η γενοκτονία των Αρμενίων δεν ήταν σε καμία περίπτωση "ένα τραγικό αλλά μη σκόπιμο επακόλουθο του πολέμου", όπως την παρουσιάζει και προωθεί η Τουρκία στο Παγκόσμιο στερέωμα, αλλά ένα συντονισμένο στρατηγικό σχέδιο, το οποίο -επιτευχθέντα- στόχο είχε την εξολόθρευση των Αρμενίων και τον σφετερισμό των αρμενικών περιουσιών. Μετά από αυτή την εξέλιξη δημιουργήθηκε μια νέα εύπορη τάξη στη χώρα και έθεσε τιςβάσεις για την ανάδυση του τουρκικού εθνικού κράτους
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Ravished Armenia - sometimes called

- Auction of Souls

The biggest and most disgusting crimes of the 20th century is the Holocaust against the Jews.
At the beginning of the century onwards it was a precursor to the Holocaust.
The Genozied of Armenians, which is unpunished until now.
"Ravished Armenia" (sometimes called "Auction of Souls") is based on the amazing narrative account of young Aurora Mardiganian that was produced for the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief in 1919, through which runs the thrilling story of the Armenian girl who survived the great massacre.
This newly restored 24 minute segment of Ravished Armenia was produced by the Armenian Genocide Resource Center of Northern California for the April 28, 2009 screening at the San Francisco Public Library. It includes a music score, and introduction, 125 subtitles and a slide show of several black and white production stills.
This movie is part of the collection: WCCA
Producer: American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relie



 Aurora Mardiganian was the daughter of a prosperous Armenian family living in Çemişgezek. She survived the 1915 genocide

The story of Aurora Mardiganian, Armenian genocide survival
Aurora (Arshaluys) Mardiganian (January 12, 1901, Çemişgezek, Mamuret-ül Aziz, Ottoman Empire - February 6, 1994, Los Angeles, California, USA) was an Armenian American actress and a survivor of the Armenian Genocide.
Aurora Mardiganian was the daughter of a prosperous Armenian family living in Çemişgezek, twenty miles north of Harput, in 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.

Here 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; the Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl, Who Lived Through the Great Massacres (1918).

The narrative was used for writing a film script that was produced in 1919, Mardiganian playing herself, and first screened in London as "Auction of Souls." The first New York performance of the silent film under the title "Ravished Armenia" took place on February 16, 1919, in the ballroom of the Plaza Hotel, with society leaders, Mrs. Oliver Harriman and Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt, serving as co-hostesses on behalf of the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.

Mardiganian was referred to in the press as the Joan of Arc of Armenia, describing her role as the spokesperson for the victims of the horrors that were then taking place in Turkey and the catalyst for the humanist movement in America.

In the 1920s Mardiganian married and lived in Los Angeles until her death on February 6, 1994.


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