Jam brand goes viral on Twitter after claims of founders' anti-Nazi efforts surface: 'Fascinating'

A supermarket shopper claims to have met a Holocaust survivor during a recent grocery run, whereupon the elderly woman revealed that she always buys Bonne Maman jam because the company’s owners protected her family from the Nazis.

Michael Perino, a professor at St. John's University, rocked Twitter on Valentine's Day when he shared the stunning story heard inside a New Jersey supermarket.   On Feb. 14, Perino said he helped a little old lady retrieve the French jam brand's raspberry preserves from a precarious position on a high shelf, for which she offered her thanks. The woman asked the professor if he knew why she preferred Bonne Maman's products — and the two got to talking.