Berdichev

Moish Berdichev, a Jewish resident of Har Adar who employed Jamal as a house cleaner and said he had known him for years, told Israeli media: “I had long heart-to-heart conversations with him about the situation with his wife, and the kids. It’s hard. It was hard for him. We had long talks about coexistence, even about cleavages in Israeli society, tensions between the right and the left. He was part of us. He ate at my table and shared glasses with us.”

On another occasion, he led an assault on a German barracks near Berdichev�against the wishes of a superior officer who had ordered him to leave the area.

Berdichev, the bustling Jewish town once used by Manstein for his headquarters, was in danger.

To General Vatutin's men fell Berdichev, a manufacturing center and traffic junction, once the headquarters of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein's South Russia Command.

A bitter, five-day attack expelled the Germans from Berdichev, battered them back toward the next and last railway from the Ukraine into Poland.