Marion Kozak, 74 Lehman, PA. See Photos. by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
“At that point, Dr Litt, a German who ran a munitions factory, walked over and said, 'I will take the children.’ The SS captain in charge was angry and challenged him, demanding to know what good children would be in a munitions factory.

It is thought the Polish names would have been used during the war years to disguise their Jewish identities. Marion will make no comment on the leadership race in which both her boys are frontrunners. Cinnaminson High School. Life in Czestochowa turned upside down on September 3, 1939 when the Germans took brutal control of the town. During an official visit to Poland he said: "My mother was born here, her life was saved by those who risked theirs [by] sheltering her from Nazi oppression".
It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. “The boys see their mother regularly,” says a family friend. [8] She was reported as "maintain[ing] a low profile" in 2010 when Ed Miliband defeated David Miliband to become leader of the Opposition in the United Kingdom. Spokeo is not a consumer reporting agency as defined by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The friend said: “A German was appointed to run the family factory, which was turned into an armaments factory during the war, and there was at least one instance of him being helpful towards the family escaping the ghetto.” It is not clear if the German who helped Marion was the same as the Dr Litt who saved Mr Rolat. Their father, Ralph, died in 1994. In the town, an estimated 2,000 Jews were murdered by Germans on the spot and another 40,000 transported to the gas chambers at the Treblinka extermination camp.

Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. You could also do it yourself at any point in time. She emigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Mr Paszkowski suggests Dawid was deported along with about 6,000 Jews at Hasag in January 1945 as the Red Army advanced to Germany, perhaps to another concentration camp. Their mum’s background has given them a toughness but also a sense of fairness.”. [1] They married in 1961. Newspaper reports stated that "his paternal grandparents were also Polish Jews". [7], Ed Miliband has admitted "my mum probably doesn't agree with me...but like most mums is too kind to say so."[10]. But The Sunday Telegraph has been able to piece together fragments of her past; a past that shapes the characters of her two successful, competitive sons. See Photos. How he returned to Czestochowa, presumably to look for his wife and daughters, and how he died is unclear.

[1], Kozak has been described in London's The Jewish Chronicle as a long-standing human rights campaigner and an early activist for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (in parallel with being described as keeping "a low profile" and being "a very private woman"). Sigmund Rolat, now a wealthy New York philanthropist who heads the World Society of Czestochowa Jews, has told The Sunday Telegraph that he is convinced Marion Kozak was in a party with him that had a miraculous escape in June 1943. Join Facebook to connect with Marian Kozak and others you may know. Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? A death certificate suggests he died in Czestochowa on May 12, 1945, four days after the end of the war.

Yet she was more outgoing and had broader interests. They married in 1961; David was born in 1965, Ed in 1969. He has told his mum he wants to do it.” For his part, David declared: “She [Mum] has taught us a lot about causes that matter, and this is a cause she is going to have to sit out.”. She emigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Marion’s grandparents, Adela and Mosiek Kozak, moved into the family home for safety, while displaced Jews from surrounding villages and towns flooded into Czestochowa to take refuge in the ghetto. Kozak hosted relatives, left-wing writers, dissidents such as Joe Slovo of the South African Communist Party, academics from abroad, the occasional politician. 20% are in their 60s, while the average age is 81. What happened to Dawid is less clear. She also credits the “kindness and generosity of acquaintances in Warsaw” with her survival. [citation needed] At some point Polish nuns in a convent took the Kozaks in and hid them from the Germans. Her parents Dawid, after whom David Miliband is named, and Bronislawa Kozak owned a steel factory in the town, employing about 300 people, and for the first six years of her life Marion – or Dobra as she was then – along with her sister Hadassa, were secure and comfortable.