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Is Bonne Maman an anti-Nazi jam? The Internet wants to think so   ullstein bild/Getty Images (JTA) - The heartwarming story has been hard to miss: A law professor is shopping at his local grocery store when he sees an elderly woman struggling to get her favorite jam from a high shelf. Why is it her favorite? "I am a Holocaust survivor," she says. "During the war, the family that owns the company hid my family in Paris." Tens of thousands of people - at least - have shared the story since it began circulating on social media this weekend. It has prompted countless people to vow to buy only...

Is Bonne Maman an anti-Nazi jam? The internet wants to think so. By Gabe Friedman, Philissa Cramer (JTA) – The heartwarming story has been hard to miss: A law professor is shopping at his local grocery store when sees an elderly woman struggling to get her favorite jam from a high shelf. Why is it her favorite? “I am a Holocaust survivor,” she says. “During the war, the family that owns the company hid my family in Paris.” Tens of thousands of people – at least – have shared the story since it began circulating on social media this weekend. It has prompted countless people to vo...

A chance encounter between a law professor and a Holocaust survivor prompted a feel-good story to circulate online. But the facts aren't clear.

Incident in a NJ Supermarket At the supermarket today, I found a small, elderly woman standing in front of a high shelf holding @BonneMamanUS preserves. She was having trouble finding the flavor she wanted because the jars were set back on the shelf. “The family prefers to maintain privacy and does not comment on inquiries about personal matters,” Bonne Maman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in a statement. Michael Perino, the St. John’s University professor who originally posted the story on Twitter, told JTA that the incident happened on Sunday morning in his northern New Jersey gr...

A chance encounter between a law professor and an elderly woman struggling to get her favorite jam from the shelf sparks an online discussion around Bonne Maman's alleged rescuing of Jews in World War II