The day of the arrest
On a warm August day in 1944, the thing everyone has been afraid of for so long finally happens: they’re discovered and arrested.
Discovered!
It is August 4, 1944, a lovely sunny day. An anonymous tip arrives that morning by telphone at the headquarters of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD or Security Police). The SD-officer in charge, Julius Deetman, takes the call and orders the
officer on duty SS-Oberscharführer Karl Silberbauer to the Prinsengracht. Four Dutch Nazis go with him to assist. More
I still find it impossible to talk about certain things. And I no longer want to talk about other things. For instance how I felt when we were routed out of our hiding place.
Otto Frank
Sent to jail
The people in hiding and the two male helpers are arrested and taken for interrogation to a jail run by the Germans. The two helpers are later transferred to a the city prison. Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl are left behind on the Prinsengracht. They rescue Anne Frank's diary papers.
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The Security Service (SS) in Amsterdam