The British Couple that helped a Family Flee during WW2 - St. Luke's Chapel Dorset

St. Luke's chapel in Dorset was on the estate owned by Sir David and Lady Olga Milne-Watson. The Milne-Watsons helped Gustav and Olga Broessler escape Austria during World War Il. They arranged for the prooper paperwork to allow the Brosslers to flee and they housed them on their estate in the gardener's house. The Broessler's had two children that they were seperated from that they had sent to the Netherlands ahead of them, hoping to all be able to emigrate to the United States. The Milne-Watsons did everything in their power to reunited family, but when Poland was invaded it was impossible. The Broessler family would eventually be reunited but it would Not end up being until 1947. The Milne-Watson's lived the rest of their life at Ashley Chase Estate and asked to be buried at the little church that they loved so much and had workmen save when they first moved there. You can see their memorial stone here in St
Luke's Chapel.
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Evelyn Edwards is a successful American actress history presenter, and photographer. She has appeared on such shows as National Geographic’s Hydrogen vs. Hindenburg, Bosch, Criminal Minds, Castle, The Mentalist, Parenthood, The Thundermans, The Kicks, Marry Me, Outsourced, the Academy Award winning film Her, the Ridley Scott Associates film Loom, and most recently Ghostbusters.
Evelyn began her career in opera. She has performed with some of the opera industry’s leading conductors and singers including: Placido Domingo, Valery Gergiev, Kent Nagano, Eva Marton, Vladimir Chernov, Goesta Winburg, and others.
She has had the privilege of working with such famed directors as Oscar winner Maximilian Schell, Julie Taymor, Gian-Carlo Del Monaco, and Lotfi Mansuri during her tenure with Los Angeles Opera. Ms. Edwards made her professional singing debut at the age of 13, operatic debut at 19, and national television commercial debut at six months.
She holds a Bachelors and Masters degree from UCLA and a PSD from Mannes College of Music. She and her husband Chris love exploring the world and sharing their passion and love for history, castles and photography together.

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A lovely story to share, There are always kind people. I'm glad they were able to find each other again. cheers

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We need more stories about the kind people I think. 💚 It was one of their daughters that published the story- thankfully to her we now know their story.

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Thank you for putting out great stories. Your voice is very moving and I can sense you have passion for history. Appreciative.

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Amazing story ❤

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What a wonderful story in a awful time. Thanks for sharing this.❤

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What an incredible story. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like it, but there are a lot of good ppl in this world 💜

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So true!

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That was an incredible story, I was hanging on every word hoping for a positive outcome. As soon as you said the Netherlands with plans of continuing on to the US, my heart sank a bit. I am so happy they were all reunited. ❤

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They were! Their daughter is the one who recorded the story! 💚💚

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Beautiful footage Evelyn!! My Great Grandmother (who I knew) was named Thekla she was of German decent but was born in Texas. ❤

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Ahhh a beautiful name! I love it!

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Thanks Evelyn.

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Always! Thank you!

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Such a sad time in our history but im glad this story has an happy ending. ❤

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Evelyn you can tell a story!

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Ohh thank you friend. It’s easy when the story is interesting 💚🙏🏻