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Mar 3, 2019 · This new and unfamiliar disease – whose name evoked Koch Syndrome (tuberculosis) – was a strong deterrent to the occupying Nazi soldiers who carried out routine searches of the hospital for Jews, partisans and anti-fascists.
The hospital is known for having sheltered Jews during the Holocaust by diagnosing them with a fictitious disease called "Syndrome K".
Syndrome K was a fictitious illness invented by Italian doctors to protect Jews from deportation to concentration camps during WW2. Learn how the Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Rome used this ruse to shelter and save hundreds of lives.
Jul 6, 2021 · Two Italian doctors invented Syndrome K, a fictitious illness, to protect Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution in Rome. They made coughing sounds to scare off the Germans and saved at least 20 lives.
Aug 15, 2017 · Called Syndrome K, the disease resulted in zero fatalities, and instead saved dozens of Jewish lives. Although highly feared, Syndrome K was actually nothing to worry about, as it was not a real disease at all.
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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...
Jul 8, 2016 · An Italian doctor explains “Syndrome K,” the fake disease he invented to save Jews from the Nazis “K” for German commander Kesselring, then overseeing the occupation of Rome. Image : AP
