Ravished Armenia

Ravished Armenia  (1918)  by Aurora Mardiganian, translated by Henry Leyford Gates

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THE LONG LINE THAT SWIFTLY GREW SHORTER One of the most striking photographs of the deportations that have come out of Armenia. Here is shown a column of Christians on the path across the great plains of the Mamuret-ul-Aziz. The zaptieths are shown walking along at one side. RAVISHED ARMENIA THE STORY OF AURORA MARDIGANIAN THE CHRISTIAN GIRL WHO LIVED THROUGH THE GREAT MASSACRES INTERPRETED BY H. L. GATES WITH A FOREWORD BY NORA WALN AND FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS NEW YORK KINGFIELD PRESS, INC. Copyright, 1918, by Kingfield Press, Inc. New York MY DEDICATION TO each mother and father, in this beautiful land of the United States, who has taught a daughter to believe in God, I dedicate my book. I saw my own mother’s body, its life ebbed out, flung onto the desert because she had taught me that Jesus Christ was my Saviour. I saw my father die in pain because he said to me, his little girl, “Trust in the Lord; His will be done.” I saw thousands upon thousands of beloved daughters of gentle mothers die under the whip, or the knife, or from the torture of hunger and thirst, or carried away into slavery because they would not renounce the glorious crown of their Christianity. God saved me that I might bring to America a message from those of my people who are left, and every father and mother will understand that what I tell in these pages is told with love and thankfulness to Him for my escape. Aurora Mardiganian. The Latham, New York City, December, 1918. THIS STORY OF AURORA MARDIGANIAN which is the most amazing narrative ever written has been reproduced for the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief in a TREMENDOUS MOTION PICTURE SPECTACLE “RAVISHED ARMENIA” Through which runs the thrilling yet tender romance of this CHRISTIAN GIRL WHO SURVIVED THE GREAT MASSACRES Undoubtedly it is one of the greatest and most elaborate motion pictures of the age — every stirring scene through which Aurora lives in the book, is lived again on the motion picture screen. SEE AURORA, HERSELF, IN HER STORY Scenario by Nora Wain — Staged by Oscar Apfel Produced by Selig Enterprises Presented in a selected list of cities By the American Committee for ARMENIAN AND SYRIAN RELIEF CONTENTS   chapter page Acknowledgment 9 Foreword 11 Arshalus — The Light of the Morning 19 I When the Pasha Came to My House 29 II The Days of Terror Begin 47 III Vahby Bey Takes His Choice 64 IV The Cruel Smile of Kemal Effendi 80 V The Ways of the Zaptiehs 99 VI Recruiting for the Harems of Constantinople 116 VII Malatia — The City of Death 132 VIII In the Harem of Hadji Ghafour 145 IX The Raid on the Monastery 158 X The Game of the Swords, and Diyarbekir 174 XI "Ishim Yok; Keifim Tchok!" 191 XII Reunion — and Then, the Sheikh Zilan 208 XIII Old Vartabed and the Shepherd’s Call 223 XIV The Message of General Andranik 239 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS   The Long Line that Swiftly Grew Shorter Frontispiece Map Showing Aurora’s Wanderings Page 75 Waiting They Know Not What Facing Page 158 Driven Forth on the Road of Terror " " 192 The Roadside of Awful Despair " " 234

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