Friday 30 March 2012

Surviving Segment of "Ravaged Armenia" about the Armenian Genocide

What a desolation

Years ago I read the book, “Auction of Souls” and my Arabic tutor then made me translate it into Arabic, chapter by chapter for Arabic practice. The book is based on an eyewitness account of a young Armenian girl (Aurora Mardiganian) during the 1915 Armenian Genocide.. They made a film of that book and Aurora starred in it. However, all the reels of the film vanished after the initial airings. This is the only remaining 20 minute segment that was recently discovered. What Aurora described was echoed by what our parents and other survivors saw and went through. The book was also published as “Ravaged Armenia.”

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