Martin Schmidt, his birth name, grew up speaking three languages — Transylvanian Saxon, Romanian and German — a trilingual skill set that would later save his life as German troops — Nazis — stormed across Europe during World War II.
Jackie and Marty Smith, who met as Jacqueline Virginie Guillaume and Martin Schmidt in France after World War II, were teenage refugees who married in 1951 and later immigrated to this area. They are shown here in the kitchen of their Lakes of the Four Seasons home.
At 15, he fled Romania on his own, first to Hungary, then to Austria, after Nazi soldiers invaded his homeland. Young “Martzy,” as he was known, was a wartime refugee with no money, no possessions, no family and no plan of any kind.This is now the same survival mindset for more than 1 million refugees fleeing Ukraine after Russian troops recently invaded their homeland. The unprovoked land assault may be the largest conventional military attack in Europe since World War II.
Jacqueline Virginie Guillaume, her birth name, fled her home in Neuville-sur-Ornain, France, with her mother, her younger siblings and an old wheel barrow to haul their only belongings as Nazi troops invaded their country. “But we didn’t know any of this back then,” said Jackie, who’s 95. “All we knew was to get through the war.”
[Most read] At least 22 injured — including 2 critically — after brawls break out at a soccer match in MexicoAfter the air raid, he fled Austria into Germany, avoiding border patrol officers. At one crossing, he said he hid in a field with another boy who had a bad cold with constant sneezing. As officers walked past their hiding spot, the boy managed to stifle his coughs.
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