My False Papers

MY FALSE PAPERSI had occasion to use false papers during my stay; I was called Johannes Smit . . . S-M-I-T. And I was [Annehmer], but I was told it was entrepreneur, I don’t know if it’s . . . for the German army. I had a pass, signed and stamped and all that . . . It was all false, eh? But, the funny thing was that when we went to Holland, in May, we met a woman we knew, who had fed me while I was at [inaudible], hidden there . . . with the American. And she told us it was her husband who forged those documents. She hadn’t told us that before. Her husband was a pretty good artist, and he could forge signatures. I had that pass, Passieren Zu Lassen, they called it. I gave it to the Musée de la Citadelle along with my identification card, the Johannes Smit one. The funny thing is that, according to the card, I was born in Apeldoorn, but I had never set foot there until May when the ceremonies were held at Apeldoorn . . . I told people that, I said, “I was born here, in Apeldoorn . . .” After that, I told them my story. . . It was funny . .