After the street fighting began, Rudolf Lion, an official of the Jewish community, was fatally shot in the abdomen in Dlouhá třída on 6 May 1945. He was one of nine children, born in Dobříš.
Officially he was without religion, but he was actually saved from deportation by his marriage to Ludmila, née Komers, a Czech "aryan" who did not divorce him despite official pressure. As a result, he, like many others, had the status of "arisch versippt" in the light of Nazi laws and decrees, and fell into a similar category to the so-called "mischlinge" of various degrees. Of the entire Lion family, only his sister Elsa survived the end of the war and died in the UK in 1950.
Rudolf Lion was buried in a common grave in Ďáblice on 11 May 1945.