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In the book, she recalled sixteen young Armenian girls being "crucified" by their Ottoman tormentors. The film Auction of Souls (1919) showed the victims nailed to crosses. However, almost 70 years later Mardiganian revealed to film historian Anthony Slide that the scene was inaccurate. She described what was actually an impalement.
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.
Throughout the genocide the men were given free licence to do as they pleased with Armenian women. [22] Armenian women and children were displayed naked in auctions in Damascus, where they were sold as sex slaves. The trafficking of Armenian women as sex slaves was an important source of income for accompanying soldiers. In Arab areas, enslaved ...
A massacre scene used as extras several thousand Armenian residents of southern California, many of whom were survivors of similar events. [5] Still of one of the crucified girls. The film shows young Armenian girls being "crucified" by being nailed to crosses.
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.
Henry Morgenthau is regarded as one of the most prominent Americans who denounced and condemned the Armenian genocide. [18] Throughout his career as an ambassador, Morgenthau had established contacts with many Young Turk politicians and especially Talat Pasha, the "mastermind" [166] [85] of the Armenian genocide. [167]
Armenian–Tatar massacres: 1905–1907 Baku, Baku Governorate, Elizavetpol Governorate, Erivan Governorate, and Tiflis Governorate of the Russian Empire: Azerbaijani mobs and irregulars 500 [citation needed] Adana massacre: April 1909 Adana Vilayet and Aleppo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire: Muslim mobs 19,479 [3] –25,000 [4] Armenian genocide ...
The Deir ez-Zor camps were concentration camps [1] in the heart of the Syrian Desert in which many thousands of Armenian refugees were forced into death marches during the Armenian genocide. The United States vice-consul in Aleppo , Jesse B. Jackson , estimated that Armenian refugees, as far east as Deir ez-Zor and south of Damascus , numbered ...