Transcriber’s Note: Suspected printer errors have been corrected. Thereare variations in the spelling of a number of names that have beentransliterated from the Armenian, and these have not been changed.
RAVISHED ARMENIA
THE LONG LINE THAT SWIFTLY GREW SHORTER
One of the most striking photographs of the deportations that havecome out of Armenia. Here is shown a column of Christians on thepath across the great plains of the Mamuret-ul-Aziz. The zaptiehsare 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 landof the United States, who has taught a daughterto believe in God, I dedicate my book. I saw my ownmother’s body, its life ebbed out, flung onto the desertbecause she had taught me that Jesus Christ was mySaviour. I saw my father die in pain because he saidto me, his little girl, “Trust in the Lord; His will bedone.” I saw thousands upon thousands of beloveddaughters of gentle mothers die under the whip, orthe knife, or from the torture of hunger and thirst,or carried away into slavery because they would notrenounce the glorious crown of their Christianity.God saved me that I might bring to America a messagefrom those of my people who are left, and everyfather and mother will understand that what I tell inthese pages is told with love and thankfulness to Himfor 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 boo