In September 1944, he along with many others were marched off to a railway station where groups of 80 prisoners were squeezed into waiting boxcars.
1944. gada septembrī viņu kopā ar daudziem citiem ieslodzītajiem aizdzina uz dzelzceļa staciju, kur viņus sagrūda kravas vilcienā pa 80 cilvēkiem vagonā.