Miriam Malnik-Ezagui (born 1986) is an American Nursing and known for making videos about her life and experiences as an Orthodox Jew living in Brooklyn, New York. Malnik-Ezagui is the granddaughter of The Holocaust survivor Lilly Appelbaum Malnik.
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.
Starting in April 2022 Ezagui began posting videos with her grandmother, who spoke about life during World War II and living in a concentration camp. One video with her grandmother received over 23 million views.
In September 2023, Ezagui was named as the Best Jewish TikToker by Jewish magazine Hey Alma.
In April 2024, Ezagui attended the March of the Living in Europe as part of a trip sponsored by TikTok. During the trip, she visited Auschwitz, where her grandmother had been imprisoned.
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