Aurora Mardiganian
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Aurora Mardiganian was an Armenian-American author, actress, and a survivor of the Armenian genocide. Arriving in America as a teenager, she co-wrote a 1918 book about her experience, Ravished Armenia
Aurora Mardiganian on a 2013 Armenian stamp
Armenian genocide
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The Armenian genocide 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, it was imp
Aurora Mardiganian
…Mardiganian (Armenian: Աուրորա [Արշալոյս] Մարտիկանեան; January 12, 1901 – February 6, 1994) was an Armenian-American author, actress, and a survivor of the Armenian genocide. Arriving in America as a teenager, she co-wrote a 1918 book about her experience, Ravished Armenia, and played the title role in a 1919 silent movie…
Column of Armenian deportees guarded by gendarmes in Harput vilayet
The Armenian quarter of Adana after the 1909 massacres
Muslim bandits parading with loot in Phocaea (modern-day Foça, Turkey) on 13 June 1914. In the background are Greek refugees and burning buildings.
Armenian defenders in Van, 1916