This Digital Exhibition is Under Construction

“Enemy Aliens”: The Internment of Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1940–1943 is currently undergoing restoration. We’re excited to bring you a modernized version of this online exhibition in Fall 2025. Read more about the exhibition here and browse the collection of exhibition objects here.

Jewish refugee in a camp uniform pushes a wheelbarrow across the grounds of Camp N in Sherbrooke, Quebec, 1940. Photographed by fellow internee Marcell Seidler, who used a handmade pinhole camera to document life in the internment camp.
Photograph of an internee in a camp uniform, taken by internee Marcell Seidler, Camp N (Sherbrooke, Quebec), 1940-1942. Seidler secretly documented camp life using a handmade pinhole camera.

Courtesy Eric Koch / Library and Archives Canada / PA-143492
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Jewish refugee in a camp uniform pushes a wheelbarrow across the grounds of Camp N in Sherbrooke, Quebec, 1940. Photographed by fellow internee Marcell Seidler, who used a handmade pinhole camera to document life in the internment camp.
Photograph of an internee in a camp uniform, taken by internee Marcell Seidler, Camp N (Sherbrooke, Quebec), 1940-1942. Seidler secretly documented camp life using a handmade pinhole camera.

Courtesy Eric Koch / Library and Archives Canada / PA-143492