The M&M Bakery: Bronia’s Legacy

Bronia Roslawowski died last Wednesday. She was 88 years old and one of this city’s great survivors. Not only of the restaurant industry in Kansas City — Bronia and her husband, Mendel, who predeceased her, operated the M&M Bakery & Delicatessen at 1721 East 31st Street for many years — but of the Holocaust. The Polish-born Bronia Kibel was imprisoned in several Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before being liberated by the U.S. Army. She chose Missouri as her destination when she emigrated to the United States in 1948, at age 27, because it was where President Harry Truman had been raised.