Syndrome K

[Available Aug. 16 to rent or own on U.S. digital HD internet, TVOD, and satellite platforms.] Ray Liotta narrates Stephen Edwards' educational, factually based, inspirational, moving, 80-minute, 2021 documentary told through reenactments and archival photographs and film footage in which three compassionate, courageous Roman Catholic doctors Adriano Ossicini, Giovanni Borromeo, and Vittorio Sacradoti working at the Vatican-affiliated Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Rome came up with an ingenious idea to concoct an allegedly highly contagious, highly lethal, fake disease they called Syndrome K when the Nazis occupied Italy during WWII to hide and save more than a 1,000 Roman Jews at the medical center by quarantining the supposedly very sick Jewish patients and moving them to safer locations after many Roman Jews in the Jewish Ghetto in Rome were deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and consists of interview clips with the International Academic Programs director at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Suzanne Brown-Fleming and Roman Jewish survivors, including Gabriele Sonnino, Luisa AlmagiĆ , Tullio Sonnino, Lea Dinola, and Giacomo Sonnino.
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