(JTA) — The world’s oldest Jewish person died in New York at the age of 113.

Evelyn Kozak, who was also the world’s seventh oldest person,  died last week, a day after having a heart attack. She would have been 114 in August.

Kozak’s family left Russia in the 1880s to escape the anti-Semitic pogroms and she was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City in 1899, one of nine children. She was Sabbath observant and kept kosher.

A widow since 1957, she outlived two husbands. She was the great-great grandmother of one, and also had five children, 10 grandchildren, and 28 great-grandchildren, according to the Associated Press.

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