He was a witness of the Holodomor, who left vivid testimonies in his letters to relatives and friends, which are currently kept in the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in Kyiv.
Jerry Berman was born in 1903 in the territory of modern Lithuania in a Jewish family.
He supervised the construction of bridges and roads, achieved a high position in the ministry.
In 2016, Alison Marshall, the granddaughter of Meyer Fortes, found Berman's letters.
On the advice of the Ukrainian-British artist and researcher Sara Nesteruk, in 2021 she donated them to the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide.