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Bidboard # 1929
Lot # 204
Catalogue Value or Estimate: $120.00
Current Bid: $100
Canada Covers

WWII Jewish Internment Camp Mail. A pair of Bolivian covers, both sent by Panagra Airmail 1941 to Internment Camp N (Sherbrooke, Quebec) via Base Army Post Office Ottawa. Referred to as "Enemy Aliens" during the second world war, the internment camp at Sherbrooke housed Jewish men who had fled Germany and Austria at the outbreak of WWII (often to Great Britain). These men were held as internees until the end of the war, with many becoming displaced persons as there was no homeland to return to. This pair of covers, both censored in Canada with Internment Camp markings (alongside the traditional censor tape). Exhibit quality, as incoming items from South America are far scarcer (and more desirable) than most internment camp mail. Estimate =