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Ellen Rose Regenstreif Film Collection

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    Collection Summary
    A collection of twenty reels of 16mm film dating from 1936 to 1943 illustrating the daily life of a prominent Austrian family named Regenstreif and Illich. The films were taken under the name Maexie. Ellen (Maexie) Rose 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 and owned 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 and the Yugoslav government made claims against her father as a landowner in Bosnia at the International Court in the Hague, 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. The films were kept in a wooden cabinet in the basement of Sascha's New York home from 1961 to 2006, when they were preserved by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
    Credit
    US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yvonne Illich

    Administrative Notes

    Film Source
    Yvonne Illich
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    Browse 18 Items In This Collection

    Family life in Vienna, 1936

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1240 | Film ID: 2911

    Date
    Event:  1936

    Illich family activities in 1936

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1241 | Film ID: 2911

    Date
    Event:  1936

    Illich family activities in 1937

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1242 | Film ID: 2911

    Date
    Event:  January-September 1937

    Illich family activities in 1938

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1243 | Film ID: 2912

    Date
    Event:  1938

    Theatrical revue staged by Illich family and friends

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1244 | Film ID: 2912

    Date
    Event:  1936-1938?

    Villa Regenstreif in Vienna

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1245 | Film ID: 2912

    Date
    Event:  circa 1937-1938

    Illich family activities in 1939

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1246 | Film ID: 2912

    Date
    Event:  1939

    Illich family visits Salzburg

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1247 | Film ID: 2912

    Date
    Event:  1939

    Illich family activities in 1940

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1248 | Film ID: 2913

    Date
    Event:  1940

    Illich family activities in 1941 to 1942 including forced sale of villa

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1249 | Film ID: 2913

    Date
    Event:  1941-1942

    Touring Austria for Maexie's birthday

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1250 | Film ID: 2913

    Date
    Event:  1936

    Vienna tourist sites

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1251 | Film ID: 2913


    Illich family escapes to Florence, 1943

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

    Date
    Event:  1943

    Illich family visits Bad Gastein, 1936

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1253 | Film ID: 2914

    Date
    Event:  1936 August 08

    Illich family visits Bad Gastein, 1936

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1254 | Film ID: 2914

    Date
    Event:  1936 August 08

    Illich family visits Bad Gastein, 1937

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1255 | Film ID: 2914

    Date
    Event:  1937 July

    Illich family visits the Dolomites, 1937

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1256 | Film ID: 2914

    Date
    Event:  1937

    Illich family tours Italy, 1937

    Film | RG Number: RG-60.1257 | Film ID: 2914

    Date
    Event:  1937
    Record last modified:
    2022-07-28 21:57:02
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