By Anthony Slide
“Ravished Armenia” and the tale of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life story of a teenage Armenian woman who was once stuck up within the 1915 Armenian genocide, the 1st genocide in smooth heritage. Mardiganian (1901–1994) witnessed the homicide of her kin and the ache of her humans by the hands of the Ottoman Empire. pressured to march over fourteen hundred miles, she used to be bought into slavery. whilst she escaped to the USA, Mardiganian was once then exploited by way of the very members whom she believed may help. Her tale was once released in booklet shape after which used because the foundation for a 1918 function movie, during which she herself starred.
The movie Ravished Armenia, often referred to as Auction of Souls, is a image retelling of Aurora Mardiganian’s tale, with the teen within the vital position, supported via Anna Q. Nilsson and Irving Cummings and directed through Oscar Apfel. simply twenty mins of the film―the first to accommodate the Armenian genocide―is identified to outlive, however it proves to be a gorgeous construction, proposing its tale in newsreel sort.
This revised variation of Anthony Slide’s “Ravished Armenia” and the tale of Aurora Mardiganian additionally comprises an annotated reprint of Mardiganian’s unique narrative and, for the 1st time, the complete screenplay. In his advent, Slide recounts the making of the movie and Mardiganian’s existence within the usa, regarding a forged of characters together with Henry Morgenthau, Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, and movie pioneer William Selig. The creation additionally contains unique reviews via Aurora Mardiganian, whom Slide interviewed sooner than her demise. Acclaimed Armenian Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, who created a video artwork install approximately Mardiganian in 2007, presents a foreword.
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While a neighbor advised us what had occurred, Lusanne ran out to Andranik’s condo and helped his mom hold within the our bodies. Father and the opposite males have been taken away that evening. In our condominium we have been sitting in my room attempting to decide them out from the shadows within the sq. made by means of the torches and lanterns of the zaptiehs, whilst many new squaddies seemed, and, abruptly, there has been an excellent shouting. quickly we observed the lads, shaped right into a lengthy line, march out of the sq., with zaptiehs and infantrymen all approximately them. It was once too darkish for us to spot father and Paul, yet we knew they'd be having a look up at our window and was hoping they can see us. They took the lads towards the Kara River, that's a department of the Euphrates. Many have been so previous and feeble they can now not stroll to this point, and fell to the floor. The zaptiehs killed those with their knives and left their our bodies at the back of. It used to be sunlight once they got here to the little village of Gwazim, that's at the river financial institution twelve miles away. there has been a wide construction at Gwazim which the Turks occasionally used as a barracks while there has been battle with the Kurds, and at different occasions as a jail. part the lads have been positioned into this construction and informed they might need to remain till the following day. The zaptiehs then took the others around the river towards Arabkir. At midday of that day the zaptiehs lower back to Gwazim. that they had killed all of the males they'd taken around the river simply once they 76 R av ished A rmenia have been out of sight of the village. after we, in Tchemesh-Gedzak, heard that a part of our males have been left within the criminal, 1000's of ladies walked the dusty highway to Gwazim. Lusanne and that i went, hoping to get yet one more glimpse of dad and Paul. In Gwazim there has been an elderly Armenian girl who had lived in our urban on the time of the bloodbath in 1895. She was once beautiful then, and whilst the Kurds stole her she stored her existence via turning Mohammedan. Then she used to be offered to a Turkish bey at Gwazim. He stored her in his harem till she grew previous. for all time, whereas professing Islam, she secretly was once Christian. The bey had given her the identify “Fatimeh. ” Fatimeh persuaded the guards on the criminal to enable her take water to the boys. while she advised the prisoners the zaptiehs had back with out the opposite males they knew an identical destiny was once in shop for them. whilst Fatimeh got here out she informed me father and Paul have been within and had despatched note to us to be hopeful. In a short while we observed her going into the legal back, this time with gigantic rocks, so heavy she may possibly rarely hold them, hidden in her water buckets. She got here out back and stuffed her buckets with coal oil. W chicken it was once darkish the more youthful males, who have been robust and courageous, killed all of the older males by way of hitting their heads with the rocks Fatimeh had taken them. Father killed Paul first, simply because he used to be so little. while the entire outdated and feeble males have been useless, the younger males prayed that God may imagine that they had performed correct in no longer letting the outdated males undergo after which they unfold the oil, set it afire, and threw themselves within the flames.