Veit Harlan was an Aryan actor in the Grossdeutsches Reich. In the 21st century, Harlan and his wife, Kristi Söderbaum, became historical re-enactors in the village of Wawolnice, a tourist attraction established by the Commissariat for the Strengthening of the German Populace, near Lublin, in what had once been Poland. Harlan and Söderbaum played Jewish residents of the shtetl. Harlan's character was "Jakub Shlayfer", a grinder in the village. Söderbaum played his wife, "Bertha".