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Mar 3, 2019 · K Syndrome was an invented illness. It was created by Giovanni Borromeo, the hospital’s head physician, with the assistance of its other doctors, with the intention of saving those Jews and anti-fascists who sought refuge there. Born in 1898, Borromeo was an avowed anti-fascist. Before taking his post at Fatebenefratelli, he had been offered ...
Syndrome K During 1941 and 1945, Hitler’s Nazi Germany murdered around six million Jews, about two-thirds of the European Jewish population, in what would become known as The Holocaust. Although this was a time where tales of hope and salvation were few and far between, there are stories of individual people and groups who demonstrated ...
Mar 29, 2017 · Syndrome K wasn't just a pet name to distinguish actual patients from Jews in hiding; the doctors had to find ways to make the disease seem real when Nazi troops combed the hospital for people to ...
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Fatebenefratelli Hospital (officially Ospedale San Giovanni Calibita Fatebenefratelli) is a hospital located on the western side of the Tiber Island in Rome. It was established in 1585 and is currently run by the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God. The hospital is known for having sheltered Jews during the Holocaust by diagnosing them ...
Jul 6, 2021 · Syndrome K — The ‘Disease’ that Saved Lives During WWII. Dr. Giovanni Borromeo helped to come up with the ruse to save the lives of his fellow Italians. (Wiki Commons) It was a cough that did it. A fake cough that managed to save the lives of at least 20 Italian Jews. After the German occupation of Rome in September of 1943, Roman Jews ...
Aug 15, 2017 · The combined efforts of Sacerdoti, Borromeo, Ossicini, and the entire hospital staff were only revealed 60 years later, and Borromeo specifically was recognized by the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in October 2004, not only for his work with Syndrome K, but for transferring Jewish patients to the hospital from the ghetto long before the occupation of the Nazis.
Aug 9, 2022 · The new documentary "Syndrome K" explains how Italian Jews were saved during the Holocaust by the creation of a contagious, fictional disease.
