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July 21, 2016

The Imaginary Disease That Saved Italian Jews from the Nazis

Syndrome K.

In October 1943, when the SS began rounding up Roman Jews for deportation to Auschwitz, a number took refuge in the Fatebenefratelli hospital, located on an island in the Tiber across from the city’s historic ghetto. They were immediately diagnosed with an illness called “Syndrome K,” and placed in a special ward, as Caitln Hu writes:

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