Greengrocer Henk van Hoeve is arrested

On 25 May 1944, four SD agents, led by Pieter Schaap,^[1] raided the greengrocer's shop and home of Henk and Riek van Hoeve and found two Jews in hiding: Richard Weisz and his spouse Ruth Weisz-Neumann.^[2] The SD is said to have been informed by anonymous letter about the people in hiding in Van Hoeve's attic.^[3] The Weiszes and Henk van Hoeve were arrested. Anne Frank wrote about this in her diary the same day:

"There's something fresh every day. This morning v. Hoeven was picked up for having two Jews in his house. It is a great blow to us.not only that those pooor Jews are balancing on the edge of an abyss, it's terrible for v. Hoeven. The world has turned topsy-turvy, the most respectable people are being sent off to concentration camps, prisons, and lonely cells, and the dregs that remain govern young an old, rich and poor. One person walks into the trap through the black market, a second through Jews or other people who've had to go  'underground'; anyone who isn't one of the NSBers doesn't  know what may happen to him from one day to another. v. Hoeven is a great loss for us too. (...) We're going to be hungry, but nothing is worse than being discovered."^[4]

With the arrest of coupon suppliers Martin Brouwer and Pieter Daatzelaar two months earlier, the food supply for the people in hiding had already been endangered; now they were afraid that shortages would arise again. Moreover, the residents of the Secret Annex began to feel increasingly unsafe after Van Hoeve's arrest.^[5]

From the prison at Weteringschans, Van Hoeve was sent to Camp Vught and ultimately survived four concentration camps.^[3] The Weiszes  were less fortunate. They ended up in Strafbarak 67, the penal hut in Westerbork and were deported from there on 3 September 1944, with the same transport as the Frank family, to Auschwitz, where they arrived on 5 September.^[6] Subsequently, they were separated and sent to different camps. Richard Weisz died on 7 January 1945 n the all-male camp of Hailfingen in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany, while his wife most likely died in Flossenbürg concentration camp in Bavaria, 400 kilometers away.^[7] 

Van Hoeve's wife was not arrested during the raid 25 May 1944, and continued the greengrocer's trade after her husband's arrest. On 8 July 1944, Anne wrote that the people in hiding had received 18 pounds of peas from Mrs. van Hoeve.^[8]