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The film shows young Armenian girls being "crucified" by being nailed to crosses. However, almost 70 years later, Mardiganian revealed to film historian Anthony Slide that the scene was inaccurate: The Turks didn't make their crosses like that. The Turks made little pointed crosses. They took the clothes off the girls.
Aurora Mardiganian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide of 1915–1923, recalled sixteen young Armenian girls being "crucified" by their Ottoman tormentors. The film Auction of Souls (1919), which was based on her book Ravished Armenia , showed the victims nailed to crosses.
Aurora Mardiganian was the daughter of a prosperous Armenian family living in Chmshgatsak (Çemişgezek), in the Ottoman Empire's province of Mamuret-ül Aziz.She witnessed the deaths of her family members and was forced to march over 1,400 mi (2,300 km), during which she was kidnapped and sold into the slave markets of Anatolia.
Women represent about 1.12 percent of the 1,607 executions performed in the United States since 1976. ... [18] 17 January 13, 2021 Lisa Marie Montgomery: 52 36 ...
[a] Women and young girls were not only subjected to rape, but also forced marriage, torture, forced prostitution, slavery and sexual mutilation. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Heinrich Bergfeld, the German consul to Trabzon , reported "the numerous rapes of women and girls," a crime he regarded as being part of a plan for "the virtually complete extermination of ...
Although not conclusive evidence for female crucifixion by itself, the most ancient image of a Roman crucifixion may depict a crucified woman, whether real or imaginary. [a] Crucifixion was such a gruesome and humiliating way to die that the subject was somewhat of a taboo in Roman culture, and few crucifixions were specifically documented.
Executed female murderers (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Executed women" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
The Big Bust Out is the US title of an Italian women in prison film, The Crucified Girls of San Ramon (Io Monaca... per tre Carogne e Sette Peccatrici). The US rights were bought by Roger Corman for New World Pictures, who cut out 20 minutes for the US release. [1] Roger Corman later said the film was not very good, but he managed to make money ...