Seven-year-old Dénes and his five-year-old brother Tamás lived with their mother in the family house on Görgey Street in Miskolc. Their father was presumably called up for labour service. The small family was moved to the ghetto in Miskolc in May 1944. Later, they were driven to the brick factory in Tatár Street, from where deportation trains left for Auschwitz-Birkenau between 12 and 15 June. Dénes, his younger brother and their mother were killed in a gas chamber after arrival.