The house at 9 Bernardyńska Street has become the subject of a book. It was written by Krystyna Modrzewska, a former tenant and the daughter of Hersz Mandelbaum, a Lublin doctor and social activist. She survived the war living on so-called Aryan papers and actively participating in the anti-German underground movement. She graduated in medicine after the war and worked as a researcher in the field of biological anthropology. She was forced to leave Poland in 1970, following the antisemitic campaign unleashed by the communist authorities in 1968. Krystyna Modrzewska was also a writer and published a few volumes of memoirs related to Lublin.It so happened that my overbearing Lublin grandmother urged my father to buy a house together at 9 Bernardyńska Street, and she enticed my mother from Warsaw, along with us, by means of some indeterminate persuasion and a vision of an apartment ready to be redeveloped to suit the needs of our family as well as a home garden.(…)The house at 9 Bernardyńska Street was located between the Bernardine Church and the former Sobieski Palace of the 17th century, on what was then a secluded and sleepy street leading directly to Krakowskie Przedmieście, the main thoroughfare of the city.Krystyna Modrzewska, Dom przy Bernardyńskiej (A House on Bernardyńska Street)