In 1934 he returned to Łódź and joined the fencing section of the Army Sport Club, twice winning the team title of City Champion.

There, at the age of 24, he won seven bouts in the quarterfinals in épée (defeating eventual silver medal winner Saverio Ragno) and four in the semifinals (defeating eventual gold medal winner Franco Riccardi), but did not get to the finals.

When the Germans took over Poland, however, he escaped to Lviv, where in 1940, in Kharkiv, he won the Championship of the Soviet Union.

It turned out that the Germans were misleading the inhabitants of the building, and they were all later arrested and transported in 1942 to the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp.

[10] The Jewish Polish swimmer Ilja Szrajbman, who had also participated in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, was also murdered by the Nazis that year.