In 1940 he was mobilised and sent to Sarajevo and Macedonia. After the April War, in 1941 he fled from Novi Sad to Zagreb, where his father, sister and son were. On June 30, 1941, he was arrested and taken to the Zagreb Fair, whence on July 2 or 3 he was sent to Gospić, then to the Slana Camp in Pag, and finally to Krapje (Jasenovac I), where according to the available information he died of starvation and exhaustion before the end of 1941.