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Syndrome K : how Italy resisted the final solution

Title
Syndrome K : how Italy resisted the final solution / Christian Jennings.
Author
Jennings, Christian
Publication
  • Cheltenham : The History Press, 2022.
  • ©2022

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288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
Summary
"For the first time, the remarkable full story of how the Holocaust was fought in Italy is told in English. Rome, spring 1944. The Nazi's persecution of Italian Jews was at its height. Giovanni Borromeo, the head physician at a hospital on the River Tiber, decided to risk his life by disguising members of the local Jewish community as patients afflicted with an imaginary disease, and hid them in closed wards. Fearing catching this highly contagious illness, known only as 'Syndrome K', the Germans fell for it, and the Jews escaped deportation to the Nazi death camps. It was just one of many ingenious ways the Italians fought a concerted, covert battle to resist the Holocaust, and in Syndrome K acclaimed historian Christian Jennings explores them for the first time in the English language. Drawing on original archive material in Italy, Germany, the Vatican, Switzerland, the UK and US, the book tells the complete story of the planning, execution, and resistance to the Final Solution in Ital"--Publisher's description.
Subject
  • 1939-1945
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Italy
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Rescue > Italy
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Jewish resistance > Italy
  • Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Italie
  • Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Sauvetage > Italie
  • Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Mouvements de résistance juifs > Italie
  • Italy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Piperno Family and the Jews of Rome -- Mussolini is listening to you -- Rome, repression and resistance -- The Papal resistance to Hitler -- Codes of the Holocaust -- The Code-Breakers at war -- On the Banks of Lake Maggiore -- The Retata of Rome -- Arrest and deportation -- The SS Network in Italy -- Detention and fighting back -- On the run from Rome to Florence -- Retaliation -- Jewish partisans in Italy -- Liberation -- The diary of an SS Double Agent -- The end in Northern Italy -- The Selvino Camp -- The German aftermath -- Epilogue: What became of the other characters in the book?
ISBN
  • 0750996552
  • 9780750996556
LCCN
99991244041
OCLC
  • on1281654770
  • 1281654770
  • SCSB-14297841
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries