Shaped like a cloud, this Torah shield is surmounted by a crown bearing a Hebrew inscription "In honor of God and His Torah" and decorated with a Decalogue with protruding trumpets and shofars. Within a cartouche, at bottom, is a Hebrew inscription indicating that the Torah shield was given to the synagogue of Weesp on the 19th of Adar [5]536 (= March 15, 1876) by Moses, son of Aaron Jacob Flehsheuer and his wife Sarah, daughter of Simon Kielsheimer in commemoration of their 25th wedding anniversary. The Jewish community of Weesp in The Netherlands first established a synagogue in a private home in 1774. By 1840 the building was on the point of collapse and a new synagogue was built. At that time, the Jewish population numbered 153 people. All Jews were expelled from Weesp in 1941 and most of them perished in Nazi death camps. Although the synagogue was pillaged during World War II, its Torah ark survived. The Jewish community was administratively dissolved in 1947.