Seder Feier 5701 [Seder Celebration 1941]. Bay Hotel, Ramsey. Mooragh Internment Camp

(HAGADAH)

Mooragh Internment Camp (Isle of Man)

1941

Hand-written mimeographed sheets. Title in English and Hebrew. Text in German On first page, illustration of traditional Seder plate.

Mooragh Internment Camp, Ramsey, on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, was established by the British government for “enemy aliens,” i.e. German and Austrian Jews seeking asylum in England. Small hotels and boarding houses along the promenade by Mooragh were requisitioned to form an internment camp. See T.M. Endelmann, The Jews of Britain 1656 to 2000 (2002), p.224. Rather than a Hagadah per se, we have on p.2 a precise outline of the various steps in the religious ceremony of the Seder. Page 3 consists of a rather meager menu for the first two days of Passover with the de jure Matzah and “Palästina Weine." The fourth and final page is an expression of thanks to individuals who made possible the festive celebration: Messrs. Bamberger, Bondi, Domowitz, Gerstle, Kramarsky, Norden, Ochs, et al