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.
Interrogated
The eight people in hiding are taken to the SD-prison on Euterpestraat. They are locked up in a large space with other people who have also been arrested. They are later interrogated individually. The police try to find out if the helpers or people in hiding also know of other addresses where people could be hiding. Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler refuse to answer. Otto responds to this question by saying they have lost all contact with their friends and acquaintances, because they have been locked away for twenty-five months, so therefore he doesn't know anything.
Separated
Following the interrogations, the people in hiding and the helpers are separated from each other. Johannes Kleiman and Victor Kugler are moved to the nearby city jail on Amstelveenseweg. The eight people in hiding are taken to a detention center on the Weteringschans, in the heart of Amsterdam.
Bep and Miep found Anne's diary
Miep Gies explains: “Later Bep and I went upstairs to the Franks' bedroom. And there we saw Anne’s diary lying on the ground. Let’s pick it up I said. Because Bep stood there looking around in a daze. I said: Pick it up, pick it up, let’s get out of here! We did the best we could to to collect it; we were so frightened! We went downstairs and there we were, Bep and I. What now Bep? Then she said: ‘You’re the oldest. You should keep it’.”
Pages from Anne's diary scattered over the floor.