Van Schaik was one of the men deported from Putten on October 1, 1944, as a reprisal, with only 48 of over 600 returning. He died in late May 1945, after liberation, in a hospital in Neuenkirchen, Germany. His presence in Putten during the raid was due to two reasons: his daughter Johanna, placed there by an organization during WWII to escape Utrecht's food shortages, and his fiancée Fietje Simon, daughter of Johanna's host family. Van Schaik's first wife died of tuberculosis in 1941. After the war, Fietje married Van Schaik's brother, and Johanna went to live with her grandmother.
