Answer Miep Gies: "Of course the heartbreaking arrest of the families on that day in August 1944 on which both the hiders and the helpers thought that they all would made it up to liberation. A couple of weeks before, the helpers had discussed the possibility of moving the hiders to another place because of frequent events (burglars). The outcome was that it was considered to be impossible to move eight people either in daytimes or nighttimes through town. All hoped that the liberation was at hand. The blow was enormous when the arrests came."