[Boy playing amid the ruins in the attic of his family's house, Amsterdam]

[Woman gathering a bundle of hay on a collective farm, Aktau, USSR]

[Girl sitting on wooden fence on a collective farm, Ukraine]

[The caretaker of the old church, Mtskheta, Georgian Soviet Republic]

[Children with instructor in a museum, Moscow]

[The committee to approve fashions suitable for sale to Soviet women, Moscow]

[Portrait photographer setting up on the streets of Stalingrad]

[Faces of a crowd watching the fireworks celebrating the eight hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city, Moscow]

[Factory worker's representatives gather at a table for a meeting, Budapest]

[Crowd of civilians walking through the ruins of Warsaw]

[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]

[Soldiers taking aim through the protection of sandbags, Jerusalem]

[A meeting of the Talmud Society gathered at the table, Jerusalem]

[Children studying the Torah and the Talmud, Jerusalem]

[Israeli President, Chaim Weizmann, Tel Aviv]

[Girl, Haifa]

[Pock-marked walls from the fighting that Capa had covered there the previous year, during the war against the Arabs to guarantee Israel's independence, Negba kibbutz (in the northern Negev Desert)]