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Map of Salvation is a feature-length docudrama film made to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.. The film tells about five European women, Maria Jacobsen (), Karen Jeppe (Denmark), Bodil Biørn (), Alma Johansson (), Anna Hedvig Büll (), who were witnesses to the Armenian Genocide and subsequently founded shelters for Armenian children and women.
During the Armenian genocide, which occurred in the Ottoman Empire, led at the time by the Young Turks, the Turkish armed forces, militias, and members of the public engaged in a systematic campaign of genocidal rape against female Armenians and children of both sexes. Before the genocide had begun, one method used to intimidate the Armenian ...
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.
The Armenian genocide [a] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
Ravished Armenia (full title: Ravished Armenia: The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, the Christian Girl, Who Survived the Great Massacres) is a book written in 1918 by Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian about her experiences in the Armenian genocide.
Joe Manganiello recalls his Armenian ancestor, who survived a genocide, in Finding Your Roots, and learned she had a child with a German man, and his connects to Nazi Germany.
In 2015 Tufankjian published in commemoration of the centennial of the Armenian genocide, There is only the Earth: Images for Armenian Diaspora. Tufankjian took six years and traveled to five different continents gathering stories and photos of the Armenian people who were killed and displaced from their homes by the Ottoman government between ...
Ahead of the second GOP presidential debate, dozens of Armenian Americans and supporters rallied at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library to bring attention to the developments in Nagorno-Karabakh.