Peter Fraenkel was born in Breslau ( then in Germany , now Poland ) on 7 December 1926 . His father was a German civil servant who received the Iron Cross for his heroism under fire during the First World War . As German oppression of Jews grew in the 1930s , Fraenkel 's mother pleaded with her husband to leave the country but he only agreed after '' Kristallnacht '' in 1938 . The family had visas for Swaziland and Northern Rhodesia but chose the later as it was though to be wealthier and in 1939 they departed for Northern Rhodesia by sea via South Africa . They settled in Lusaka and Fraenkel 's father opened a dry cleaning company with a friend . Peter Fraenkel was educated at Lusaka Boys ' school
Kristallnacht
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Peter Fraenkel (journalist)