Did you know that during the Holocaust, doctors at an Italian hospital invented a fake deadly disease to fool the Nazis and save Jews?
It was called K syndrome, described as highly contagious and deadly, it was completely made up.
The Fatebenefratelli Hospital had become a refuge for Jews under the direction of Professor Giovanni Borromeo. On October 16, 1943, the hospital opened its doors to Jews seeking shelter.
Borromeo knew that the hospital was most likely to be searched and so he and two doctors, Vittorio Sacerdoti and Adriano Ossicini, came up with a brilliant plan, they decided that any Jew who came to the hospital seeking refuge would be admitted as a new patient, quarantined and declared suffering from K syndrome.
When the Nazis arrived to search the hospital, they were informed of patients suffering from a new deadly disfiguring disease. The plan worked and stopped these cowardly Nazis from entering these areas of the hospital, saving many lives.
They received the medal of Righteous Among the Nations!
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The Sonderkommando revolt of Auschwitz-Birkenau
The Jewish people are often wrongly presented during the Shoah as a people of sheep who allowed themselves to be led to the slaughterhouse without resisting!
