Ravished Armenia

Originally published in 1918.

Ravished Armenia is an autobiographical account of Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian, the Armenian beauty who escaped to America after two years of unspeakable adventures in the hands of Kurdish Raiders, Slave Markets and Turkish Harems. Her account depicts the story of what happened to Christian women in the hands of Kurdish Slave Raiders and how these Christian women endured in ravished Armenia. These events transpired during the Armenian diaspora, also known as Armenian holocaust or Armenian genocide.

In 1919, an American film entitled Ravished Armenia, also known as Auction of Souls, was released, and the author, Arshaluys (Aurora) Mardiganian, herself played the lead role in the film.

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From the New York Sunday American-
This girl, Aurora Mardiganian, who had been captive in the harems of the wealthy Turks, had been dragged to the tents of wild Kurdish chiefs, who had been carried off into captivity, slung on the saddle of an Arab raider, who had been purchased by a slave dealer and sold on the auction block to the highest bidder.

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.