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Aug 20, 2022 · “Syndrome K,” which hits digital and VOD platforms on Tuesday, after some Jewish film festival showings, tells that little-known, surefire story: how three doctors at a hospital in Rome ...
Mar 20, 2019 · Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Saved Lives. In the fall of 1943, as German soldiers began rounding up Jews in Italy and deporting them by the thousands to concentration camps, a mysterious and deadly disease called “Syndrome K” swept through the city of Rome causing dozens of patients to be admitted to the Fatebenefratelli Hospital ...
Jul 26, 2022 · Syndrome K was released online in the United Kingdom in February 2021. It is now getting a digital release in the United States from August 16, 2022. You can rent the documentary on Amazon, iTunes ...
Aug 9, 2022 · Co-directed by Greg Hunger, “Syndrome K” begins in the fall of 1943 as the German soldiers invade Italy, rounding up and shipping thousands of Jews off to concentration camps. Jews were ...
Mar 7, 2017 · Syndrome K was named for two Nazi officials: Albert Kesserling, the German commander overseeing Rome’s occupation, and city police chief, Herbert Kappler who would later mastermind the Ardeatine ...
Syndrome K. : Rome, spring 1944. The Nazi's persecution of Italian Jews was at its height. Giovanni Borromeo, the head physician at a hospital on the River Tiber, decided to risk his life by disguising members of the local Jewish community as patients afflicted with an imaginary disease, and hid them in closed wards.
Sep 1, 2021 · This ruse, kept up by a Christian doctor and a Jewish doctor, saved more than 100 Jewish lives. In 1961, Dr. Borromeo passed away of old age in Fatebenefratelli Hospital, the same hospital where he once proved himself a friend of God’s children thanks to Syndrome K, an act for which Yad Vashem named him Righteous Among the Nations. As the ...
