massacre. He wrote a detailed description of the events for publication in The Black Book, edited by Grossman and Ilya Ehrenburg, which dealt with the German treatment of Soviet Jews in the Holocaust. Originally meant for publication in the Soviet Union, it was banned there; one volume was eventually published in Bucharest in 1947. The original manuscript is in the archive of Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. A detailed account of the massacre as told by the narrator's mother appears in a fictionalized context in Grossman's novel Life and Fate, which is widely available in an English translation by Robert Chandler. Russia invasion of Ukraine On March 16, 2022, Berdychiv was damaged by Russian air strikes. A few buildings were torn down. Demographics Notable residents Alphabetically by surname. Pseudonyms treated as one word. Jacob Pavlovitch Adler (birthplace of his mother, Hessye Halperin) Honoré de Balzac (married in Berdychiv) Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), Polish and British writer John Demjanjuk (born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk; 1920–2012), Ukrainian-American accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out while serving as a guard at Nazi extermination camps during World War II Der Nister, pen name of Pinchus Kahanovich (1884–1950), Yiddish author, philosopher, translator, and critic Charles Joachim Ephrussi, the patriarch of the Ephrussi family grain dynasty Lipa Feingold (1878–1945), American jeweler and composer Abraham Firkovich, Karaite hakham Abraham Goldfaden (1840–1908), considered the father of the Jewish modern theatre Israel Grodner (1887), one of the founding performers in Yiddish theater Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), Soviet Russian writer and journalist Felix Lembersky, fine arts, painter (1913–1970), born and raised in Berdychiv, worked as theater stage designer Raquel Liberman (1900–35), Jewish-Polish victim of human trafficking who broke up the notorious Zwi Migdal forced-prostitution ring in Argentina. Osip Mikhailovich Lerner (Y. Y. Lerner), writer, critic, and folklorist Mendele Mocher Sforim, pen name of Sholem Yankev Abramovich, Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature Pedotser, whose real name was A.M. Kholodenko (1828-1902), a Klezmer violin virtuoso Antoni Protazy Potocki, szlachta (owned and organized several factories in the village of Makhnivka, near Berdychiv) Anatoliy Puzach (1941–2006), Soviet football player and Ukrainian coach David Petrovsky (1886–1937) — the mayor of the city and the chairman of the Jewish community of Berdychiv in 1918–1919, a member of the Central Committee of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia, a member of the Central Committee of the Jewish