Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 16 ga Yuli 1942 'yan sandan Vichy sun kama Kofman a lokacin rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver
, tare da wasu Yahudawa 13,000, kuma aka tura su zuwa sansanin tsare Drancy don jiran fitarwa. A cewar 'yarsa Saratu, mahaifinta ya ji labarin tarzomar ta hanyar jita-jita kuma ya bar gidansa da wuri don ya gargadi sauran yahudawa game da haɗarin, kafin ya koma gida, a shirye ya sadaukar da kansa ga danginsa. An kama shi da karfe hudu na yamma. Iyalinsa, waɗanda ba su sake ganinsa ba, sun karɓi katin gaisuwa, wanda wani ya rubuta, daga sansanin a Drancy. An tura shi zuwa Auschwitz ta hanyar Convoy (Convoy) No 12 a ranar 29 ga Yuli 1942. Bayan yaƙin, an aika da takardar shaidar mutuwa daga Auschwitz. Dangane da shaidar wanda ya tsira daga Auschwitz a wannan lokacin, Rabbi Kofman ya kasance a sansanin har shekara guda kafin kashe shi da Kapo a ranar Shabbat saboda ya ƙi yin aiki. An yi masa bulala da gatari kuma aka binne shi da rai. Wanda ya aikata laifin, wani masassaƙin Bayahude, ya dawo daga gudun hijira kuma ya sake buɗe shagonsa, Rue des Rosiers, a cikin Pletzl.