Staff Memorial to Dag Hammarskjöld and 15 Who Died with Him

A stained glass panel by the French artist Marc Chagall which will be unveiled at United Nations Headquarters on 17 September as a memorial to former Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and the 15 others who died with him in 1961 in a plane crash at Ndola, Northern Rhodesia. The ceremony will mark the third anniversary of the accident. The memorial will be unveiled by Secretary-General U Thant in the south-eastern section of the lobby of the Secretariat building, facing the East River. Creation of the memorial has been made possible by the United Nations staff members at Headquarters and abroad, who to date have donated $17,000 in response to an appeal launced soon after Mr. Hammarskjöld's death, by the committee of the United Nations Staff Council. The panel, which is about 15 feet wide and 12 feet high depicts conceptions of the artist on the themes of peace and man.