The first feature film about the Genocide of the Armenians «Ravished Armenia or Auction of Souls» is a silent American feature film of 1919, based on the book «Ravished Armenia» by Arshaluis Martikanyan.
In 1918, a book by a girl from Chmshkatsag Arshaluis Martikanyan (Aurora Mardiganyan) «Ravished Armenia» was published in New York.
The book, which is one of the first published documentary evidence of eyewitnesses of the Armenian Genocide, told about the horrors experienced by the girl.
