Miriam Ezagui

Malnik-Ezagui works as a labor and delivery nurse and runs her own business, Birthing With Miriam, a childbirth class program.[1][2]

She is also a social media content creator, with over 74,000 followers on Instagram and over 1.5 million followers on TikTok as of March 2023.[3][4] Most of Malnik-Ezagui's content focuses on educating people about Jewish culture, faith, history, and practices.[5][6] These videos range from education on kosher laws and family purity laws to holiday preparations and celebrations.[5][6][7]

In September 2022 Malnik-Ezagui posted a series of videos with her grandmother, who spoke about life during World War II and living in a concentration camp.[8][9] One video with her grandmother received over 23 million views.[8][10][11]

Malnik-Ezagui is the granddaughter of Belgian Holocaust survivor Lilly Appelbaum Malnik, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz concentration camp for fourteen months.[8][12] 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.[13] Malnik-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.[13][14] Malnik-Ezagui's grandaunt, granduncle, great-grandmother, great-granduncle, and great-grandaunt were killed during the Holocaust.[8]

She is married to Aron Ezagui, a paramedic, and has four children.[1] She and her family live in Brooklyn, New York City.[15] They are Orthodox Jews who follow traditional religious practices including Taharas Hamishpacha, or laws of family purity.[16]

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