This is a photo of a synagogue located at 1201 East 10th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11230. The name of the synagogue is Beit Malkiel Torah Center, which translates to House of Malkiel, Torah Center. In this particular case this synagogue was named of the chief Rabbis father. The Rabbi Yitzchak Shimunov named the synagogue after his father, who in his days was a very holy and g-d fearing Jew. The name of the decedent as per Judaism is Malkiel ben Chizkiyau or simply Malkiel Shimunov.
Malkiel Shimunov was born in 1909, the month and day are unknown due to loss of records. Malkiel was born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. He was born into a family of lawyers, in fact he was one of the first lawyers in Samarkand. Malkiel married and had two children. Early in his life he practiced as a private criminal counsel until he was detained and placed in Soviet concentration camp in the 1930s located in Siberia. Out of the 200 Jews which were detained with him he was the only survivor. He was released 4 years later. Malkiel returned to Samarkand and became a prosecutor, by this time his wife had died and his children moved to Israel. Although he had close ties with government agencies he never joined the communist party and kept a low profile regarding his political views. Malkiel married for the second time and had three sons. Malkiel attended the synagogue every Shabbat and made sure to have Shabbat meals at his house every Friday and Saturday. He loved guests and always had people over for Shabbat. He was one of many who kept majority of commandments in USSR including abstaining from eating bread Pesach and much more.
Malkiel died in 1983 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. His sons immigrated to the U.S. in the early and mid 90s and his middle son became a Rabbi.