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File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Ludwik Stabholz conducted by Charles Roland in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 11, 1987.

Topics cover: life as a Jewish medical student in Poland before the war; experience of being captured and escaping from a Russian prison; work in the Jewish Hospital (Czyste Hospital) during the war and the medical conditions in the hospital; experience of being sent to the Belzec labor camp in 1940 and the living conditions in the camp; discussions about the underground medical school ("the Course to Combat Epidemics") in the ghetto, including its establishment, teaching program, conditions and resources, courses and exams, professors and students; discussions about Dr. Edward Lott and his help to the Stabholz family and contributions to the underground medical school; life and living conditions in the Warsaw ghetto; experience of escaping from the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto in August, 1942; discussions about his cousin Tadeux Stabholz’s experience during the war; life after the war.

Also contained are two photos taken at time of the interview - one portrait of Dr. Ludwik and one image of the view out of Dr. Ludwik’s study in Tel Aviv.

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of oral history interview with Irena Bakowska conducted by Charles Roland in Kingston, Ontario on February 1st, 1983.
Topics cover Irena’s early life, education and family in Warsaw prior to the Second World War, the bombing of Warsaw and the persecution of Warsaw Jews before their imprisonment in the ghetto and thereafter, experience of receiving Lyceum education in an underground school in Warsaw, learning conditions and social life in the Warsaw ghetto underground medical school, life and living conditions in the Warsaw ghetto, evacuation from the Warsaw ghetto, life in hiding in Zakrzowek in 1942, experience in the labour camp in Germany in 1943, discussions about the dignity of the suffering Jews and reflections on the war.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Eugenia Pernal conducted by Dr. Charles Roland in Toronto, Ontario, on May 19, 1987.
Topics discussed in the interview include: Eugenia Pernal’s early life in Warsaw; her father’s business in Warsaw and her brother’s early educational experience; the creation of the Jewish quarters in 1940; her family’s living condition in the ghetto; the courses she took in the medical school in the ghetto and the professors there; her experience of working in Berson and Baumann Children’s Hospital and the conditions in the hospital; recollection of she and her brother catching typhoid fever and the symptoms she had with the disease; experience of seeking jobs as a registered nurse after the war; recollections of Dr. Hirszfeld and Dr. Fenigstein; recollections of the location and the building where she had medical and nursing courses; recollections of the head surgeon and the head doctor of Berson and Baumann Children’s Hospital; discussion of the research on starvation in the ghetto; her experience of escaping from been sent to Umschlagplatz; the nursing conditions in Berson and Baumann Children’s Hospital and the location of the hospital; the living conditions during the war and the cannibalism she once witnessed during the war.
Also included is a portrait taken at time of interview.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Dr. Janina Zaborowska conducted by Dr. Charles Roland in Oakville, ON, on September 12, 1985.

Topics discussed in the interview cover: her family background; the experience of her husband during the war; her involvement in the Girl Guide; her daily work in the bath houses in Warsaw before the ghetto was formed; her roles in the scabies clinic at the public health center; her experience working for Warsaw Communication Services; her involvement with the Intelligence Service; discussion of the Zaorski school and the Warsaw ghetto underground medical school; discussion about Janusz Korczak; her connections with Jewish people and the anti-semitism before the war; her "Nom de Guerre" for underground activities: Renia and Joanna; discussion about the uprising of Warsaw; her experience doing the messengers job and going through sewers; her military honours in the Polish army; her educational experience and life after the war; the events in August and September of 1944; her experience in the camp at Bergen-Belsen and her health during that time; her liberation at the end of the war; her reunion with her husband; the experience of her husband after the war.

Also included are 2 photos (portraits taken at time of interview), 1 photocopy of a map of Warsaw in the first week of combat (map reproduced based on Von Bach's sketch from the Nuremberg Trial - Polish text is on map)

File consists of two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Tadeusz Stabholtz conducted by Dr. Charles Roland in North Canton, Ohio on December 4, 1982.

Topics discussed in the interview cover: educational background before the war; discussion about Henry Fenigstein; the situation when the war began in September, 1939; his experience of leaving Warsaw to Lowo and conditions of the hospitals there; his experience in the Russian border; the organization of the medical courses by Dr. Zweibaum in the ghetto; courses taught in the underground medical school; experience of studying in the underground medical school; contact between the underground medical school and the school outside the ghetto; discussion of his father’s role in the Jewish Hospital in Czyste; his financial condition in the ghetto; situation of the mass deportation and his experience of escaping from the deportation; the uprising in the ghetto; the situation in Umschlagplatz; his experience of surviving three extermination camps: Treblinka, Majdanek; Auschwitz; discussion about Dr. Polisiuk.

It also contains a final interview transcript, and original draft of the transcript with edits annotated on it as well as a photocopy of an article featuring Dr. Stabholtz called ""Seven Hells" - A Physician Remembers" by Leonard Hoenig, published in Hospital Practice February 15, 1988.

File consists of an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Dr. Karolina Borman conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on March 29, 1984.

Topics discussed in the interview cover: discussion of Dr. Roland’s study on prisoner-of-war camps during the World War Two, what stimulated his interest in the Warsaw ghetto underground medical school, how he carried out the research, and students he met during the research; discussion of Bronka Wygodzka, Dr. Borman’s classmate in the medical school;
discussion of how people dealt with disaster in a way of study; discussion of the research on the hunger diseases in the Warsaw ghetto; Dr. Borman’s background and family members; discussion of Dr. W. Lewin, a pupil of her grandfather; dental practice of her father and how the patients helped her family survive during the war; discussion of her mother’s brother, Izaak Dobrejcer; comments about the young people who studied during the war; discussion of the adaptability of human beings and the importance of tradition and moral background; her first husband, William Bein and her experience working in baby clinics in Casablanca; post-war depression and apathy; discussion of how she dealt with emotional upheaval after the war; her marriage and divorce; her psychoanalytical training; her refugee patients and their attitude towards psychiatry; a typical day as a medical student in Warsaw ghetto medical school ; experiences in the ghetto.

Also contained are 4 photos of Dr. Karolina Borman examining infants at a clinic in Casablanca (ca. 1950), final interview transcript, and original draft of the transcript with edits annotated on it.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Dr. Tramer conducted by Dr. Roland on March 9, 1985.
Topics cover Dr. Tramer’s life before Germany occupied Poland; life working in the Jewish hospital in Sosnovice; experience in labor camps in Germany practicing medicine; the liquidation of Sosnovice and surrounding small cities; experience being sent to Wiesau camp and the condition there; the liquidation of labor camps in 1943 and formation of concentration camps; the condition in concentration camps in Bunslau, Nordhausen, Ellerich, and Oranieburg; discussion of Dr. Mengele as the chief doctor in Auschwitz; ghettos in Sosnovice and the condition there; life after the war.
Also included are two portraits of Dr. Tramer taken at time of interview.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Dr. Miriam Brysk conducted by Dr. Roland at Galveston Texas on May 31, 1984.
Topics cover Dr. Brysk’s father, Dr. Miasnik’s educational and professional experience before the war; discussion about the top two surgeons in Warsaw at the time; life in the Lida ghetto; slaughter of the Lida Jews on May 8, 1942; life with the underground partisans in the forests in Belorussia; experience of being liberated by the Russian army in 1944; experience of escaping from Belorussia to Poland; experience of travelling as refugees through Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Austria to Italy; experience in the camp in Italy and reunion with a cousin of her farther; experience living in Rome with the cousin; migration of the family to the United States in 1947 and life in New York.

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Marek Balin conducted by Charles Roland in Timberlake, Ohio on May 16th, 1983. Topics cover Balin’s early life and family members in Warsaw, educational conditions for Jews before the Second World War in Warsaw, life in the medical school of Sorbonne University, life as an in-house staff of the Jewish Hospital (Czyste Hospital), education and social life as a medical student of the underground medical school in the Warsaw ghetto, the massive deportations in July 1942, life hiding in Warsaw until 1945, life after the war, and relationships with other Warsaw ghetto survivors interviewed by Dr. Roland.
Also included is a portrait of Balin taken at time of the interview, a copy of Balin’s identification card (1942), and a copy of Balin’s student card from the University of Warsaw (1948). Identification cards are in German.

Subseries consists of oral history interviews relating to the clandestine medical school in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Holocaust. Included are transcripts, cassettes, and photographs. These interviews formed the foundation of Dr. Roland’s research for his book, Courage under Siege (published in 1992). Interviews are arranged alphabetically according to surname.

Series consists of records documenting the oral histories Dr. Roland conducted as part of his research in the field of the history of medicine. Included are interview transcripts, audio cassettes, portraits of interview narrators taken by Dr. Roland in situ at the time of their interview, and reproductions of original photographs that were loaned to Dr. Roland by the interview narrators. Interviews were conducted primarily by Dr. Roland and Mrs. Joan McAuley.

Series is arranged into the following subseries:

1. Warsaw Ghetto / Holocaust
2. Prisoners of war in Europe (First World War)
3. Prisoners of war in Europe (Second World War)
4. Prisoners of war in Asia (Second World War)
5. Early Canadian medicine
6. McMaster Medical School
7. Spanish Civil War

Fonds consists of records documenting Dr. Roland’s activities as a medical historian. The bulk of the material was created or collected by Dr. Roland while he was McMaster’s Hannah Chair. Included are oral history transcripts, audio cassettes, correspondence, photographs, prints, maps, patient records, translated documents, memoirs, play scripts, diaries and one artifact.

Fonds is arranged into the following series: 1: Oral histories, 2: Photographs, 3: Correspondence, 4: Research material : Warsaw Ghetto / Holocaust, 5: Research material : prisoners of war in Asia (Second World War), 6: Research material : prisoners of war in Europe (Second World War), 7: Research material : McMaster / Hamilton medical history, 8: Research material : Canadian medical history, 9: Research Material : general, 10: Mountain Sanatorium patient files (restricted).

Series consists of issues of "The Humber Student Voice". The "Student Voice" was an independent student paper, published by the student body of Humber College.