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Illich family escapes to Florence, 1943

Film | Digitized | RG Number: RG-60.1252 | Film ID: 2913

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    Illich family escapes to Florence, 1943
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    Description
    [no title] The three Illich boys (much older and leaner) overlook the cityscape of Florence, Italy, where the family fled to in 1943. They eat and place flowers on a grave. The boys walk down a street with cyclists behind them. Horses run on a racetrack. An older man (priest) stands in the streets with the Illich boys and other young schoolboys/classmates. CU, another priest with the twins.
    Duration
    00:02:16
    Date
    Event:  1943
    Locale
    Florence, Italy
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yvonne Illich
    Contributor
    Camera Operator: Ellen R. Illich
    Biography
    Ellen (Maexie) Regenstreif Illich (1901-1965) came from a family of converted Sephardic Jews who had settled in Germany. Her industrialist father, Fritz (Pucki) Regenstreif (1868-1941), had a lumber business in Bosnia where he owned a sawmill at Zavidovic and an Art Nouveau villa on the outskirts of Vienna in Pötzleinsdorf built by Friedrich Ohmann. Piero Ilic (1890-1942) came from a landed family in Dalmatia, Yugoslavia with property in Split and extensive wine and olive oil producing estates on the island of Brac. Ellen and Piero married in 1925 and established a home in Split. There was a resurgence of anti-foreign and anti-Jewish sentiment in Yugoslavia, so in 1932, Ellen returned to her father's villa in Vienna with their three children: Ivan (1926-2002), Michael (Micha) (b. 1928), and Alexander (Sascha) (1928-2009). Piero died of natural causes in Split in July 1942 (the boys never saw their father after they moved to Vienna). After the death of Fritz Regenstreif on May 8, 1941, the splendid home was taken by the Nazis in a forced sale, and Maexie moved into a pension in Vienna with the children. In Nazi Austria, Maexie was considered an ethnic Jew although she was a baptized Christian, and the children were classified as half-Jewish. In 1942, they made their way to Florence by way of Split, where they lived for three months. Later, Maexie made her way to the United States, where she died in 1965.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Amateur.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Excellent
    Time Code
    03:50:08:00 to 03:52:24:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2913 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal - B-wind - AGFA - Kodachrome
      Master 2913 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large
      Master 2913 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal - B-wind - AGFA - Kodachrome
      Master 2913 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large
      Master 2913 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal - B-wind - AGFA - Kodachrome
      Master 2913 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large
      Master 2913 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w and color - reversal - B-wind - AGFA - Kodachrome
      Master 2913 Video: Digital Betacam - b&w and color - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2913 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2913 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2913 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2913 Video: Betacam SP - b&w and color - NTSC - large
    • User
    • User 2913 Video: DVD - b&w and color
      User 2913 Video: DVD - b&w and color
      User 2913 Video: DVD - b&w and color
      User 2913 Video: DVD - b&w and color

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Yvonne Illich
    Conditions on Use
    The Museum does not own the copyright for this material and does not have authority to authorize third party use. For permission, please contact the rights holder, Ms. Yvonne Illich.

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    Administrative Notes

    Note
    There is no burn-in time code on the DVD (user copy).
    Film Source
    Yvonne Illich
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5440
    Source Archive Number: Reel 16
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:03:09
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