Ravished Armenia
 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
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 which is the most amazing narrative ever written has been reproduced for the American Committee for TREMENDOUS MOTION PICTURE |
| 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 |
| 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 |
This work is a translation and has a separate copyright status to the applicable copyright protections of the original content.| Original: | 
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1927. The author died in 1994, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 25 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. |
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| Translation: |
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1927. The author died in 1937, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works. |