Answer Miep Gies: "The non-Jews could still go after their work, do shopping and attend school. But is wasn't really normal. People didn't have cars anymore, nutrition was extremely scarce and regularly we had airraid alarms. Then you had to run for one of the public shelters, constructed throughout town. The allied airforce did not bomb Amsterdam city, except some of its factories and military quarters, but the Germans were shooting like mad at the allied planes and quite often hit one of them, that then could fall on us such as still be seen at the flowermarket near the Mint tower where a modern building now stands on the spot where an English plane crashed in to several buildings."