Seder HaTephiloth. Rosh Hashanah - Yom HaKipurim. Edited by the Liberal Jewish Congregation of the Central Promenade Camp, Douglas I. O. M.

Original mimeograph High Holidays prayer-book for German and Austrian Jewish refugees interned by the British on the Isle of Man. <<Exceptionally rare. Not a single copy traced on OCLC / Worldcat >> “As Britain went to war in September 1939, there were some 80,000 potential ‘enemy aliens’ in the country, that is, Germans and Austrians who might conceivably support Germany as spies. 55,000 of these were refugees from Nazi Germany and most of them were Jewish… First came the May 12th order to intern temporarily all German and Austrian males over sixteen and under sixty years old who were in the coastal regions of England and Scotland. A second order on May 16th ordered the internment of all category “B” people - male and female - throughout the United Kingdom. And then, following the surrender of France to German forces on June 2nd, 1940, the British government interned most remaining adult males of enemy nationality from ages 16-70. Approximately 27,000 people were interned: Among them were German and Austrian artists, doctors, scientists, open opponents of the Nazi regime and even those who had lived in Britain since they were infants. Eighty percent of the refugees in England were Jewish… Early in July 1940 a steamer took internees to the Isle of Man. There, the internees realized they would no longer to be treated as civilians but as prisoners of war.” (http://www.geraldfriedman.com/files/Internment_Gerald_Friedman.pdf). Perhaps a unique surviving example of this extraordinary prayer-book written for internees as they considered their fate in the coming Jewish New Year.