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Unfassbar: Hendrik Hoppenstedt (CDU) hat gerade im Bundestag antimuslimischen Rassismus als „Kampfbegriff“ bezeichnet. Die CDU verleugnet Rassismus.

She was fourteen years old when the soldiers came for her. Her name was Arshaluys Mardiganian Aurora. She grew up in a prosperous Christian Armenian family in Turkey. When Turkish authorities came to take her for a powerful commander's harem, her father refused. Days later, the men of her town as her father, her brother were led away. They never came back. Aurora, her mother, and her siblings were forced into a death march across hundreds of miles of desert. Those who fell behind were shot. She watched her mother die on that road. She was sold into slavery for the equivalent of 85 cents. She escaped. Across multiple countries. All the way to New York City. There, she wrote her memoir "Ravished Armenia" and then starred in the film of her own story. The first person in history to portray herself in a movie about her own genocide. The American press called her "the Armenian Joan of Arc." She was barely 18. Between 1915 and 1923, an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed. The whole world looked away. Aurora refused to let them. She lived to be 93. She never stopped telling the story. Source: Aurora Mardiganian,Ravished Armenia