Miriam Ezagui

Miriam Malnik-Ezagui (born 1986) is an American nurse and TikToker known for making videos about her life and experiences as an Orthodox Jew living in Brooklyn, New York. Malnik-Ezagui is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivor Lilly Appelbaum Malnik.





== Early life and family ==

Miriam Malnik grew up in Maryland, in a traditional Jewish family; at age 9 her family became Orthodox through Chabad.

Ezagui is the granddaughter of Lilly Appelbaum Malnik, a Belgian Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp for fourteen months. Her grandmother, who met the German Nazi doctor Josef Mengele three times while imprisoned, was liberated from the camp when she was sixteen years old by the British Army in 1945. Ezagui's grandfather, Abraham Malnik, was a Holocaust survivor from Lithuania who was sent to Kovno Ghetto, a Jewish ghetto, and was later imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, Flossenbürg concentration camp, Leitmeritz concentration camp, and the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Ezagui's grandaunt, granduncle, great-grandmother, great-granduncle, and great-grandaunt were killed during the Holocaust.





== Career ==

Ezagui works as a labor and delivery nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and runs her own business, Birthing With Miriam, a program that offers childbirth classes.





=== Social media ===

Ezagui has over 614,000 followers on Instagram and close to 2 million followers on TikTok as of June 2024. She first began posting videos in May 2020.