which owns the Bonne Maman brand, was only founded in 1959, supposedly showing once again that this story couldn't be true.
Gervoson was born in 1920, and shortly after the war he married a woman named Suzanne Chapoulart, the sister of his future business partner. The Chapoulart family lived in the village of Biars-sur-Cère where they owned a fruit and nut business. In the 1950s, Gervoson started to package and sell his father-in-law's unsold jams, a business that would eventually evolve into the Bonne Maman brand.
"We were complete strangers to everyone in this village, Biars sur Cere, which then had about 800 people; it's the village where Bonne Maman preserves come from. "You have to understand what it was like then," Mr. Mayer said."There were posters on the walls, from the Nazis and from the collaborators, and they said that if you are found to help a Jew, a freemason, a communist, a socialist, or a pervert, you will be shot on sight." Despite the great danger in which helping the Mayers and other Jewish children put the villagers, still they kept the children safe.
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