Ravished Armenia by Aurora Mardiganian
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"Ravished Armenia" by Aurora Mardiganian is a memoir written in 1918 about her experiences during the Armenian genocide. At fourteen, Mardiganian witnessed the murder of her family and endured captivity in Turkish harems while maintaining her Christian faith. She eventually escaped with help from a Canadian missionary and was sent to America to share her story. The book documents brutal atrocities against Armenian women and children, becoming a crucial historical testimony of
the massacres. A film adaptation followed in 1919, though all complete copies have been lost. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Mardiganian, Aurora, 1901-1994 |
|---|---|
| Author of introduction, etc. | Waln, Nora, 1895-1964 |
| Translator | Gates, H. L. (Henry Leyford), 1878-1937 |
| LoC No. | 19001186 |
| Title |
Ravished Armenia The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl Who Lived Through the Great Massacres |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravished_Armenia |
| Credits |
Produced by Cindy Horton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918) |
| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives |
| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities |
| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- Armenia |
| Subject | Armenian massacres, 1915-1923 -- Personal narratives |
| Subject | Genocide -- Turkey |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 53046 |
| Release Date | Sep 13, 2016 |
| Last Update | Oct 23, 2024 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 664 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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