[Man dressed in rags, Poland]

[Peasant wedding, Carpathian Mountains, Slovakia]

[Founder of the state of Israel, David Ben-Gurion reads the proclamation that will establish Israel as an independent nation, Tel Aviv]

[Soldiers walking a dirt road, Israel]

[Israeli soldiers in a shallow trench during the war for Israel's independence, Israel]

[Man leaping from a moving tractor, West of Jerusalem]

[Menachem Begin speaks into a microphone with his hand raised in a fist, Tel Aviv]

[The rusting hulk of the Altalena, beached since she was rallied upon by Israeli government troops a year earlier, Tel Aviv]