I have a photograph of a drawing of “Dr. Porges” portrayed
in Prague in 1941 by my father the artist David Friedmann.
This
photograph is among a surviving series of portraits of the officials
of the Palestine Office and leaders of the Prague Jewish Community
1940-41.
So that the readers can understand
the story, please see link
to the David Friedmann website : http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Visual___Artistic_Resources/david_friedmann/portraits.html
“ Except for the
Czech writer Stefan Engel, all were murdered by Hitler.”
The surviving
portraits are historically significant testimony
of a dynamic
Jewish community that was destroyed.
Top photos: Bergmann, Stefan Pollak, and Metzl Center
photo: Stefan
Engel
The subjects pictured next to Dr. Porges are possibly (?) Hugo Stern and Huso
Löwinger (or Lövinger).
I feel an obligation to try to identify
the victims even without a name.
It is possible that Dr. Porges was deported from Prague to
Theresienstadt, but could have been sent to Lodz, like
my father and Dr. Oskar Singer for example.
