Tablecloth. A gift from women of English-Soviet committee of Coventry

In January 1943, Emily Smith, the mayor of Coventry, 830 other women and several men wrote their names on a tablecloth. Each of them made a contribution of six pence for a signature to the Medical Aid to Stalingrad Fund. Over the next two years, May Adams, a resident of Coventry, embroidered these names on a tablecloth. Enid Trent (Meyel), an honorary secretary of Coventry Committee of English-Soviet Unity in 1941-1949 responsible for organization of numerous events, wrote, “To make a tablecloth for Stalingrad was the idea of Ms. May Adams, who was a representative of the English-Soviet Unity Committee from the women's guild of the Lockhorst Lane cooperative ... She began embroidering on the tablecloth in February 1943, when Stalingrad was released and took every opportunity to ask people to put their signatures on the tablecloth and make a monetary contribution to the Medical Aid to Soviet Union Fund”. The tablecloth was officially handed to the representatives of Stalingrad on March 31, 1947.