Aerial combat over Amsterdam ‘We never have a peaceful night anymore’
The people in hiding were terrified when there were aerial battles over Amsterdam or when the city was bombed. There was nowhere they could go. ‘I clutched my emergency runaway kit to my chest, more to have something to hold on to than to actually run away, because we can’t leave anyway or in the most extreme case the street is as dangerous for us as a bombardment.’ (Anne Frank, 26 July 1943.)