Norbert Friedman was active in his local Zionist youth group in the years leading up to the start of the war. Zionism, the movement to establish a Jewish state in Palestine, became increasingly popular with Jews in Eastern Europe as life was made more difficult for them in their home countries.

ID: Eight children and one adult facing the camera. Three of the children and the adult hold a flag, printed with a circle, at an almost horizontal angle. Three of the children are standing, two are crouching, one sits on his knees, and two sit with their legs crossed, one of them holding a guitar-like instrument.