On the fifteenth of May '42 I was taken as a prisoner by the Germans and went to Nuremberg and from there we went to Stanislav. ESCAPE FROM THE GERMAN PRISONER OF WAR CAMP IN STANISLAV Then I planned to escape. The train went from Stanislav up north and we would escape south of the Dnister. I had to sit down in the first wagon car before the Germans. The German guards were always in the last car. We went through the hole  [the opening on the side of the car] with six people. I jumped just after the bridge and I don't know how the village was called. But when the train slowed I jumped and Lineman jumped and we hid. MY FRIEND DIED IN MAUTHAUSEN AFTER AN UNSUCCESSFUL ESCAPE Here is the photo of the General van Hootegem with me and my buddy. And my buddy died in Mauthausen in the concentration camp, for he jumped too early when the train went too fast. FINDING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE CARPATHIANS We tried to cross the Dniester but the borders [banks] were frozen and in the middle it was open. And we had no boat. So we went to the bridge. That man was on duty on the bridge and he gave an order to two men to bring us to the village to the UPA. MEETING WITH THE UPA The commander was the UPA man. So he waited and he knew that we were Dutch for we had