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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.

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 June 28, 1982.

Topics discussed in the interview cover: the underground medical school in the Warsaw ghetto from 1941 to July 1942, including the establishment of the underground school, Julian Zweibaum and his role in the underground school, the many different doctors and organisations connected to the underground school, courses at the school, education and the students, teaching and research studies in the Warsaw ghetto hospitals on hunger disease, tuitions for the underground school; students who survived the war; physical and mental state after the war; Dr. Fenigstein's experience of moving to Canada after liberation; discussion of treatment and possible betrayal of Jewish people towards other Jewish people during the war; motives of being involved in the underground school of medicine.

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 March 31, 1982.

Topics discussed in the interview cover: the studies recorded in Dr. Fenigstein's book "Hunger Disease" from the beginning of 1940 to July 22 1942, including how, where, and why the studies were done, the effects of the war on the studies, conditions in the Jewish hospitals during the studies, burning of the research papers, findings from the studies and autopsies, publication of the studies after the war; the students from the Warsaw ghetto underground medical school; sex life during the war; Treblinka extermination camp; the correctness and accuracy of television show "The Wall" in 1982; Dr. Fenigstein's roles in the underground fighting groups; German officer August Walling from the concentration camp Hessental and his trial; clarification of the dates mentioned in the first interview.