DOCUMENTARY. How Jewish refugees from Europe are helping native Palestinians to build the Jewish nation.

Survivors from German concentration camps, ghettos, and similar places arrive by the ship-load in Haifa (70). Hundreds more come by train from Romania, but for every Jew that reaches Palestine a thousand remain in Europe (107). At reception camps, they are fed, and given new clothes and beds with clean sheets (149). Boys and girls go to agricultural schools where they are lectured and do practical work ploughing, sowing and gathering their own crops (210). Agricultural schools specifically for girls teach all aspects of farming and include lessons on poultry rearing, grafting orange trees and cultivating flowers (251). Scout troops build a camp on Mt. Carmel and light an eternal flame in memory of those left behind (286). Physical training and athletics are encouraged to help the young people become strong and healthy (312). They play hockey (332), go swimming (340), take part in track events (356) and rowing (370). The Nautical school attached to the Hebrew Technical Institute in Haifa trains boys in navigation - the use of technical instruments to plot a course (394), signalling methods (399). A parade of cadets (420). The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the youngest national university in the world, looks out over Benjamin and Moab (483), and the River Jordan, symbol of Palestine (496). The ruins of Capernaum (505). The Jewish people have to start from the beginning to build their state. They clear the land of rocks and tree stumps with the minimum of machinery, and level large areas (550). As they begin to build, they are helped by the Jews all over the world who send money to the two main funds - the Keren Hayesod, which supplies tools and materials, and the Jewish National Fund which purchases land for the people (590). These settlements have common laundries, nurseries, gardens and so on. They mean that families are together, a relatively new experience for some of the immigrants (636). Much work must be done on the land to make it productive. In some areas, the land must be terraced to retain as much water as possible, while other areas have to be drained of swamp-water. Long ditches are dug across the countryside to distribute water evenly. The harvests bring in greater quantities than were imagined possible (717). Among the crops are sunflowers - the seeds supply oil for factories. Food is grown in abundance - a sharp contrast to past lives of deprivation (740). Each village has its own herd of cattle (755), the people raise ducks on the Jordan and flocks of goats and sheep graze along the river banks. There are even the remains of herds of water buffalo (781). The Jordan itself provides fish to supplement the people's diet (801), it has also been used to work a hydro-electric station at Naharayim, a symbol of future progress (658). Palestine has advanced rapidly in a short time. There are still many European refugees who need help to reach their new country. The film ends with an appeal to the Jews of America to make donations to help these people and the land of Israel (903 ft).