Syndrome K
Syndrome K is the true story about a highly contagious, highly fictitious disease created by three Roman Catholic doctors during the holocaust to hide Jews in a Vatican-affiliated hospital.
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"Syndrome K (2019) was co-written and directed by Stephen Edwards. It's a documentary about an amazing group of young doctors who set out to save some of Italy's Jews from capture and murder by the Germans. The physicians invented a deadly disease--Syndrome K. It was said to be highly contagious and almost always lethal. There wasn't any Syndrome K. The "patients" were Jews who were saved from the Germans for a few days until they could be placed in convents and other locations where they were relatively safe. (Many Romans--clergy and non-clergy--bravely helped the Je..."
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Three doctors -- Adriano Ossicini (1920-2019), Pietro Borromeo (1898-1961), and Vittorio Sacerdoti (1915-1999) -- are credited with inventing this horrific and highly contagious disease that wasn't even real - called "Syndrome K." Dr. Borromeo's son, Giacomo Borromeo, was a lawyer by trade and had extensive knowledge of Syndrome K. He is featured in the film though he passed away in 2019.
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Syndrome K is the true story about a highly contagious, highly fictitious disease created by three Roman Catholic doctors during the holocaust to hide Jews in a Vatican-affiliated hospital.