Armin died at the age of 98 in January 2018. He was among the oldest remaining Jews in Brasov Romania. his family moved to Israel, and he remained in Brasov. Armin believed in communism, modesty, and equality. Communism died and Armin's ideology died too. He remained alone in Brasov without a family or children and eventually without friends. He shared the stories of his life and one of the painful things he said a year before his death that he do not know anyone in his town anymore. In the last  year of his life, Armin moved to a retirement home in Bucharest. Even though   Armin still kept the keys to his old apartment in Brasov and would carry a picture of himself from his younger years as a captain in the Romanian Secret Service.