Aurora Mardiganian’s memoir «Ravished Armenia» and the eponymous film (1918), where the teenager survivor of the Armenian genocide played herself in the first attempt at representing the annihilation, became the stuff of legend. The memoir had many reprints and was translated into different languages, while the film was shown in many countries until its traces disappeared in the 1920s.
The memoir had been translated into Spanish in 1919 (reprinted in 1999). A second Spanish translation appeared in early 2021. The movie was commercially premiered in Buenos Aires in 1920, and exhibited for the last time in a function for the local Armenian community in 1926.
