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The Children of the World Dream of Peace, Frame I
The second mural shows a huge military figure, wearing a gas mask, and holding a machine gun and a sword. This sword is stabbing a dove, which is the symbol for peace and implies that peace will be destroyed.
This is actually the first frame of the second mural, as it is in two parts.
The figure with the gas mask, machine gun, and sword is Tanguma's representation of warfare and oppression creating destruction all over the world as the children huddle in darkness.
In the lower right hand corner is a poem:
I once was a little child
who longed for other worlds.
But I am no more a child
for I have known fear.
I have learned to hate...
How tragic, then, is youth
which lives with enemies,
with gallows ropes.
Yet, I still believe
I only sleep today.
That I'll wake up
a child again,
and start to
laugh and play."
by
Hama Herchenberg,
14 years old.. died
December 18, 1943
Auschwitz
Concentration camp
No doubt this inspired him.
Originally posted by johnconn0r
I dont see a connection to japan or any specific location... Just that they seem to be dying of radiation.