Search results
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 ...
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 ...
One incredible story of defiance is lesser-known story of Syndrome K, the fictitious disease invented by Italian doctors that fooled the Nazi’s and saved lives. Although the persecution of Jews in Italy has been somewhat overshadowed by the decimation of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe during WW2, between 8-9,000 Italian Jews died ...
People also ask
What is 'Syndrome K' about?
Is Syndrome K a fictitious disease?
Was Syndrome K a real disease?
Who invented K syndrome?
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 ...
- Jason Serafino
Aug 15, 2017 · The little-known story of Syndrome K, which stayed secret for 60 years after the war. From September 1943 to June 1944, Nazi forces occupied the city of Rome. During this time, a mysterious illness broke out, which led many to be quarantined in an isolated wing of the city’s Fatebenefratelli Hospital.
- All That's Interesting
Jul 8, 2016 · Most never returned. But in Rome, a group of doctors saved at least 20 Jews from a similar fate, by diagnosing them with Syndrome K, a deadly, disfiguring, and contagiosissima disease. The 450 ...
Aug 12, 2022 · How the subject of his new documentary, “Syndrome K,” has largely escaped public attention is a mystery to filmmaker Stephen Edwards. “It’s the greatest elevator pitch in Hollywood,” he ...
