sentences:  Yakov Mikhailovich Berger, who later adopted the name Jacques Bergier, was born in Odessa in 1912.Mikhail Berger, his father, was a Jewish wholesale grocer and his mother, Etlia Krzeminiecka, was a former revolutionary.A grand-uncle of his was a miraculous rabbi and in his autobiography, "Je ne suis pas une légende", Bergier says he was a cousin of nuclear physicist George Gamow and of a certain Anatoly, a member of the firing squad that shot Tsar Nicholas II.