File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Dr. Henry Fenigstein conducted by Dr. Charles Roland in Toronto, Ontario on 21 January 1982.
Topics discussed in the interview cover: life in Poland in the 1930s, including the restrictions for Jews and the general atmosphere of anti-Semitism; Dr. Fenigstein’s life and educational experience before the war; experience as an army physician of the Polish army; work as an assistant physician in the department of pathology in the Warsaw Jewish hospital in 1940; relocation of the hospital to the Warsaw ghetto; experience of teaching in the underground medical school and conducting research projects; conditions of the underground medical school and the hospital; the first big liquidation/extermination of the Warsaw ghetto on July 22, 1942; conditions of the hospitals after the first liquidation; the second liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto in January 1943; the final liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto on April 19th, 1943; experience in different concentration camps, including the Plage and Laskiewicz camp near Lublin, the labor camp in Budzyn, the labor camp near a big city of Radom, the labor camp in southern Germany in Wurtemberg, and the last camp in Hessental; shortage of food and medication in the camps; liberation on April 30, 1945 by American army near Munich; life after the war. Attached to the transcript of the first interview is a list of locations of Fenigstein from April 21, 1943 to April 30, 1945.
Fenigstein, Henry