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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. Fearing infection, the Nazis did not dare enter the ward, turning their attention elsewhere.
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.
Italy’s Jewish community is one of oldest in Europe, and Syndrome K is one of many WWII-era anecdotes of ordinary Italians taking extraordinary action to save the lives of fellow citizens, made...
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...
Sep 1, 2021 · Syndrome K was a hoax invented by a Christian doctor to protect Jewish patients from the Nazis in Rome. Learn how this ruse, kept up by a Jewish doctor, saved more than 100 lives and earned the doctor recognition as Righteous Among the Nations.
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.
