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In Poland during the Russian occupation but also spent some time in India and Japan as a missionary, He had to return to Poland because he was in poor health. He assisted Polish refugees during the Nazi invasion and was arrested for this and sent to prison. He ended up in Auschwitz where he gave his life in place of another.

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