Aurora Mardiganian (1901–1994) survived the Armenian Genocide as a teenager — witnessing the deaths of her family and enduring forced marches and captivity — before escaping to the United States. In 1918, she told her story on screen, playing herself in the silent film Ravished Armenia, which reached millions of American viewers and raised the equivalent of $2 billion in today's money for Armenian relief. At sixteen, she was the human face of the Genocide to the Western world.
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