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Holocaust Survivor Marion Kozak, Miliband Mother, Dies at 91

5/31/2026

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Marion Kozak, Holocaust survivor and human-rights activist, died at 91, prompting tributes from sons Ed Miliband and David Miliband.
Born Dobra Jenta Kozak in Poland in 1934, she escaped the Czestochowa Ghetto in 1942 and later found refuge with nuns.
After settling in Britain she married Ralph Miliband, joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and in 2009 David Miliband thanked the Poles who sheltered her during a foreign-secretary visit.

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Marion Kozak, Holocaust survivor and human-rights activist, died at 91, prompting tributes from sons Ed Miliband and David Miliband.
Born Dobra Jenta Kozak in Poland in 1934, she escaped the Czestochowa Ghetto in 1942 and later found refuge with nuns.
After settling in Britain she married Ralph Miliband, joined the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and in 2009 David Miliband thanked the Poles who sheltered her during a foreign-secretary visit.