YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 24, ARMENPRESS: Stamp devoted to the Armenian Joan of Arc, Avrora Mardiganyan, survivor of Genocide, has been issued on September 24 in Armenian Genocide Museum. As Armenpress reports the director of the Museum Hayk Demoyan noted that the Armenian Postal service started to issue stamps on the 100^th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. He noted that these steps bear particular importance as they immortalize the heroes of those ages.   

“This is importance for both the internal and the external audiences of this event is great, as the stamps bear the main messages,” Hayk Demoyan said. He noted that the initiative will have is continuation. On the 100^th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide “Haypost” has already issued stamps devoted to German theologist Johannes Lepsius, English diplomat James Bryce and the Genocide survivor Avrora Mardiganyan.   

In 1918 a film was screened in Holywood based on Avrora Mardiganyan’s story called “The auction of the spirit”. In this film which was presented in New York Avrora tells about the horrors of the Genocide and the exile. Avrora was 14 when she lost her family during the Genocide and later she was tortured and raped by Turks and Kurds. In the film she told about all those horrors.

She was later remembered as the Armenian Joan of Arc. She escaped from the Turkish harem of Kemal Effendi and in 1917 got to Erzrum, later to St. Petersburg and New York.

Deputy Minister of Transport and Communication Andranik Alexanyan , head of the Armenian Philatelist union Hovik Musayelyan and the director of the Armenian Genocide Museum Hayk Demoyan took part in the ceremony of issuance.