WHO WERE THE BOYS WHO CAME TO LEBANON PARK?
The students’ responses and reflections were based on the true stories of the boys who fled Nazism in the late 1930s and came to Twickenham as part of the kindertransport. Of the ten boys who lived in the house in Lebanon Park we’ve managed to find out about four of the boys (and a young lady who helped them) who fled Nazi Germany and Austria and came to Twickenham. They were: Gunter Ruf, Rolf Metzger, Freddy Popper, Franz Reichmann... and we also know about Margot Brauer, a young lady who also fled Germany and looked after the boys in Lebanon Park.
ROLF METZGER Rolf Metzger was born into a Jewish family on 21 August 1928. His family lived in the town of Mainz which is in the west of Germany near Frankfurt. Rolf, who changed his name to Ralph when he lived in England, arrived at the port of Harwich on 27 June 1939.
Rolf and younger cousin Henri Stern on horseback
Rolf Metzger on his bycycle before he was forced to flee Germany.
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