- Object Name:
- Torah Ark Curtain
- Place Made:
- Kolkata, India
- Date:
- mid-20th century
- Medium:
- Wool twill: embroidered with wool thread; cotton damask
- Dimensions:
- 78 × 49 in. (198.1 × 124.5 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the David Family in loving memory of their parents and youngest brother, Ramah and Eddy David and Sydney David
- Accession Number:
- 1995-56
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This Torah ark curtain once hung in the Maghen David Synagogue of Calcutta. It bears a dedicatory inscription in memory of Sonny Solomon, a Flying Officer in the Royal Air Force during World War II, and a member of the Baghdadi community of Calcutta. The twenty-five year-old Solomon was the only Jew from the community to perish in combat, during air operations over France in 1944.
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