Mom is shocked to discover Bonne Maman's possible connection to the Holocaust
On November 1, 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 — the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau — as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Every year on this date, the UN urges everyone to honor the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazism. In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, we're sharing one mom's viral TikTok about a jelly company's shocking connection to the Holocaust. Melinda Strauss is a mom and popular TikToker who documents her Orthodox Jewish family and way of life. In February 2021, Strauss went viral when she shared the fascinating story of Bonne Maman's possible involvement in the Holocaust, according to a Twitter thread she came across. The Twitter thread, posted by professor Michael Perino, detailed his emotional encounter with a Holocaust survivor in the jelly aisle of a New Jersey supermarket. He helped an elderly woman reach raspberry preserves on the shelf. She asked him if he wanted to know why she always buys the brand. "I am a Holocaust survivor... During the war, the family that owns the company hid my family in Paris. So now I always buy it. And whenever I go to the store, my grandkids remind me, ‘Bubbe, don’t forget to buy the jelly,'" she said. "I am a Holocaust survivor... During the war, the family that owns the company hid my family in Paris. So now I always buy it. And whenever I go to the store, my grandkids remind me, ‘Bubbe, don’t forget to buy the jelly,'" she said. While Bonne Maman didn't exist in an official capacity until after World War II, according to Snopes.com, the founders of the company can trace the history of their business back to the French village of Biars-sur-Cère
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