Yes, the factory was in Prezmsl. It was a furniture factory. Mendel is the 5th from the left in the middle row of the group. I was told that the photo is of the workers in his fathers shop. I would guess that it was taken after the war some time between 1918 and 1921.

Mendel was an active member of the Jewish Workers Bund ( a socialist, non-communist union movement) and at one time, led the workers out in a strike. I do not know if it was a strike against his fathers factory or whether (as I think more likely), it was part of general strike.

This  photo is of Mendel & some friends in Cuba. The 2nd man from the left is Harry Ente, Mendel is 3rd from left. I don’t know who the others are. Harry Ente & his family lived in the coops during the 40s &. They were not relatives, Harry was either a “landsman” (meaning from the same town) or a friend from Cuban days. The Ente’s had relatives in Sea Gate as we did (Aunt Mollie & Uncle Harry Metzger). Sea Gate was a gated community of large single family homes at the edge of Coney Island. I don’t know about Che & Fidel, but Mendel joined the party in Cuba and the once & future dictator, Fulgencio Batista ( the one Fidel overthrew), was a member of party at the time, probably in the same cell.

Note from David: The two other men in the photo are Dick Wilhelm, left, and Bernard Wolman.