 Aurora Mardiganian, a survivor of the Armenian genocide of 1915–1923, recalled sixteen young Armenian girls being "crucified" by their Ottoman tormentors.The film "Auction of Souls" (1919), which was based on her book "Ravished Armenia", showed the victims nailed to crosses.However, almost 70 years later Mardiganian revealed to film historian Anthony Slide that the scene was inaccurate.