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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 Dr. Roland’s professional correspondence, including correspondence with oral history narrators and colleagues. Correspondence is predominantly dated to Dr. Roland’s time at McMaster University as Hannah Chair. Files and organization have been retained in received order.

Subseries consists of transcripts, cassette tapes, and photographs relating to oral history interviews documenting notable Canadian persons and developments in medical history. Interviews are arranged alphabetically according to surname.

Subseries consists of oral history interviews regarding the founding and early years of the Medical School at McMaster University (now part of the Faculty of Health Sciences). Included are transcripts and cassettes. Interviews were predominantly conducted by Mrs. Joan McAuley (the first archivist at the Health Sciences Library and wife of early faculty member, Dr. Ronald McAuley). The interviews were conducted under the auspices of the Hannah Institute of Medical History and with Dr. Roland’s assistance (as McMaster’s Hannah Chair). Interviews are arranged alphabetically according to surname.

Series consists of former patient files from the Mountain Sanatorium, acquired by Dr. Roland post-1970. Bound volume is a single patient file.

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

File consists of a transcript and 3 audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Alexander Anderson Numbers conducted by Corinne Saunders on November 19th, 1980. Topics cover: experience of serving in the army in Rouen, France; family background; medical courses he had taken in medical school and his summer work during his medical studies; the clinical training received in medical school; experience interning at Hamilton General Hospital (giving anesthetics for obstetrics, treating summer diarrheas and burns in pediatrics, relationships with patients); experience of practicing medicine in Ancaster; discussions about planned parenthood and Elizabeth Bagshaw; stories about the superstitions he experienced when practicing medicine.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Bronislaw Wisniewski conducted by Charles Roland at Elmhurst, New York on May 3, 1989.
Topics cover Wisniewski’s early life and education experience; the numerus clausus on the admission of Jews in the Secondary schools in Warsaw; working at the Jewish Hospital on Stawki Street and the conditions there; typhus epidemic and his own experience of getting typhus; lack of food in the ghetto, the hunger disease and his research and book about it; discussion about the children’s hospital in the ghetto and the director Dr. [Anne] Braude-Hellerowa; discussion about teaching in the underground medical school and students who survived the war; the massive deportations at the ghetto; experience of living in hiding; experience as the chief of the medical department of the military hospital and his discharge from the army; work and life as a professor in the postgraduate medical school of Warsaw in the 1950s; discussion about “Pavlov’s healing”; story of his coming to the United States and his experiences leading up to it in Poland and Israel; work and life in the U.S.
Also contained is a portrait of Wisniewski taken at time of the interview.

File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Bronislawa J. Wygodzka conducted by Charles Roland in New York City on January 8, 1988.
Topics cover Bronislawa’s life and family before the war; life in the ghetto in Sliska; the Roman Catholic Church and the pope in the ghetto; experience of being in a military division and her role as a sanitary nurse; experience in Zielaniak; experience of being sent to a transitory camp in Pruszkow after the Uprising broke out in August 1944; escaping from Pruszkow to Blonie; discussions about the underground medical school, including learning conditions, resources and equipment, courses, and chief professors in the school. Attached at the end of the transcript is a document about the Sanitary Preparatory Course for Combatting Epidemics approved by the Jewish council in Warsaw Board of Health.
Also contained is a portrait of Bronislawa taken at time of the interview.

File consists of a transcript and two audio cassettes of an oral history interview with Dr. Clifford Armitage conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on November 19, 1980, and December 11, 1980, in Brampton. Topics cover: Family members and early life in London and Blaine Lake; life in University of Saskatchewan (financial situations, sports, social life, jobs, etc.); financial situations after graduation and experience of working with different companies; experience of studying in the medical school at University of Toronto; experience of getting started in medical practice; life in England as a house physician at Radcliffe infirmary in Oxford; practicing medicine in Schumacher (setting up the office, medical situations, common diseases, mining accidents, economic situations, the prepaid medical plan, etc.); recollection of outstanding things regarding medical changes (tuberculosis, pasteurized milk and clean water, immunization programmes, general attitude towards sex, the advent of antibiotics, the delivery of medical health care).