这是联合国工作人员和马克•夏加尔本人于1964年赠送的礼物，以纪念联合国第二任秘书长达格•哈马舍尔德和1961年飞机失事时与他一起罹难的其他15个人。

这个纪念物大约15英尺宽，12英尺高，里面有一些和平和爱的象征，例如在画面中间的小孩被一个从花海中出现的天使般脸庞的人亲吻。在左边、下边和上边描绘的都是母爱和争取和平的人。画面上的音符使人想起贝多芬第九交响曲，这是达格•哈马舍尔德先生生前喜爱的乐曲。

It was a gift from United Nations staff members as well as Marc Chagall himself, presented in 1964 as a memorial to Dag Hammarskjold, the second Secretary-General of the UN, and fifteen other people who died with him in a plane crash in 1961.

The memorial, which is about 15 feet wide and 12 feet high, contains several symbols of peace and love, such as the young child in the center being kissed by an angelic face which emerges from a mass of flowers. On the left, below and above motherhood and the people who are struggling for peace are depicted. Musical symbols in the panel evoke thoughts of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which was a favourite of Mr. Hammarskjold's.