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|name        = Evelyn Kozak
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|birth_name =  Eva Chavka Rivka Jacobson  
|birth_date  = {{birth date|1899|8|14}}<ref name="GRG">{{cite web|title=Oldest Validated Living Supercentenarians|url=http://grg.org/Adams/E.HTM|work=Gerontology Research Group|accessdate=December 18, 2012|archive-date=January 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103173911/http://grg.org/Adams/E.HTM|url-status=dead}}</ref>
(contracted; show full)ssian Empire]], and the oldest verified Jewish person in history from November 6, 2012, 12 weeks after turning 113, when she broke fellow German-born American [[Adelheid Kirschbaum]]'s record of 113 years and 83 days though until August 27, 2014 when fellow Russian-born American [[Goldie Steinberg]], who was the oldest living Jewish person after her death, broke her record.

Kozak died of a [[heart attack]] at a hospital in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City]] in the early morning of Tuesday June 11, 2013,
 just 9 weeks and one day before her 114th birthday and barely around a quarter of a day before the oldest living person, 116-year-old Japaneseman [[Jiroemon Kimura]] (who died at 2.08am the night of June 12 = 13.08pm the afternoon of June 11 [[Eastern Time Zone|New York Time]]). Kozak was one of the last person in the world born in 1800s.

She survived two of her five children and had 10 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

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