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1. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 93650Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Fooled the Nazis and Saved ...

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   Mar 29, 2017 · As thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Italy were being sent to concentration camps in the fall of 1943, a group of dissident doctors figured out a way to save dozens of lives: Fabricate a disease...

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2. www.historytoday.com › k-syndrome-disease-savedK Syndrome, the Disease that Saved | History Today

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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.

3. allthatsinteresting.com › syndrome-kSyndrome K: The Fake Disease That Saved Jews From The Nazis

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   Aug 15, 2017 · During this time, a mysterious illness broke out, which led many to be quarantined in an isolated wing of the city’s Fatebenefratelli Hospital. Called Syndrome K, the disease resulted in zero fatalities, and instead saved dozens of Jewish lives.

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4. www.historynet.com › syndrome-k-the-disease-thatSyndrome K — The 'Disease' that Saved Lives During WWII

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   Jul 6, 2021 · Stories. Syndrome K — The ‘Disease’ that Saved Lives During WWII. Two Italian doctors invent an imaginary disease that helped save thousands of Jews in occupied Nazi territory. by Claire Barrett 7/6/2021. Dr. Giovanni Borromeo helped to come up with the ruse to save the lives of his fellow Italians. (Wiki Commons) Share This Article.

5. www.austinchronicle.com › daily › screensA Fake Disease That Saved Real Lives in Syndrome K

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   Aug 15, 2022 · As new documentary Syndrome K reveals, a group of Italian Catholic doctors weaponized this idea and turned it against the Reich, inventing a fake disease and saving many Roman Jews from ...

6. ashpublications.org › hematology › articleApproach to the patient with suspected hypereosinophilic syndrome

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   Dec 9, 2022 · This review provides a case-based discussion of the differential diagnosis of HES, including the classification by clinical HES subtype. Treatment options are reviewed, including novel eosinophil-targeted agents recently approved for the treatment of HES and/or other eosinophil-associated disorders.

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   What is Syndrome K?

   • Taken to a separate wing in the hospital, patients labeled with the “highly contagious” Syndrome K were easily identifiable to Italian doctors and hospital staff as Jewish refugees. When Nazis came to visit the hospital, Syndrome K patients were told to cough and hack loudly so as to scare off the soldiers.

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   Who invented K syndrome?

   • These patients were, however, refugees. 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.

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   Why did a doctor put a 'Syndrome K' on patient papers?

   • Inventing a fake disease cut out all the confusion—when a doctor came in with a "Syndrome K" patient, everyone working there knew which steps to take. “Syndrome K was put on patient papers to indicate that the sick person wasn’t sick at all, but Jewish,” Ossicini told Italian newspaper La Stampa in 2016.

   Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Fooled the Nazis and Saved Lives

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   Was Syndrome K a real ailment?

   • Rather, it saved lives. For Syndrome K was not a real ailment at all. When Italy introduced anti-Semitic laws – similar to what Germany had already adopted – in 1938, a Jewish doctor named Vittorio Sacerdoti found work at Fatebenefratelli Hospital, which allowed him to use false identification papers.

   Syndrome K – How a Fictitious Disease Saved Real Lives

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   Sep 1, 2021 · The Nazis, intent on rounding up and killing the local Jewish population, were too afraid of contracting Syndrome K to search the hospital. This ruse, kept up by a Christian doctor and a Jewish doctor, saved more than 100 Jewish lives.