despite the urgings of some friends, he refused to emigrate. but in july 1942 he was taken by the gestapo to the theresienstadt concentration camp. his adopted daughter margerete won some privileges for him, such as the right to send and receive letters, and to receive his suitcase intact, and ultimately a release from theresienstadt. but an epidemic of enteritis had been sweeping through the camp, and he succumbed to it the very same day that margerete received the notice that her father was to be released.