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Name: FRASER, Sylvia Unita MBE, Mrs
Nee: Rosenberg
Birth Date: 1915 Johannesburg
Death Date: 2003
First Date: 1949
Profession: Secretary to many Societies in EA including being a Councillor on both Nairobi and Thika Councils, EAWL and schools
Area: Thika
Married: In Springs, Gauteng 14 Sep 1949 Thomas Fraser (1915-1995)
Children: Susan Melissa; Andrew Thomas
Book Reference: EAWL
War Service: Secretarial work for senior officers in SA, Egypt, NA, Italy, Germany and UK
General Information:
Source - Mrs Sylvia Fraser
Glimpses - Other Jews, of varying degrees of religiosity, arrived in Kenya in various capacities. One was Sylvia Rosenberg Fraser, who came from South Africa after the war. She married a Gentile farmer in the Thika area and lived cut off from Jewish life; nevertheless 'Shelanu' saw fit to publish an admiring article about "A War Hero and a Leader in Our Midst" shortly before she died in 2003.