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Joachim Porges (b. 1846, d. Zbenice CZ 26/05/1896) married Ernestine Pollak |
Franz
Porges (b. 1899)
Paul
Porges (b.1901)
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Hanus
Porges (b. Prague 06/01/1908, d. KZ Auschwitz ca. 1943)
Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague I, Regnartova 4
Transport Dh, no. 228 (08. 07. 1943, Prague -> Terezín)
Transport Dl, no. 1653 (06. 09. 1943, Terezín -> Auschwitz)
Murdered
https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/115898-hanus-porges/
married
Valerie/Vally Singer (b. 23/03/1906, d. KZ Auschwitz 1943)
Transport Dh, no. 229 (08. 07. 1943, Prague -> Terezín)
Transport Dl, no. 1654 (06. 09. 1943, Terezín -> Auschwitz)
Murdered
https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/115992-valerie-porgesova/ |
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Max
Porges (b. 24/05/1877, d. KZ Auschwitz ca. 1943)
Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague XI, Štítného 18
Transport AAq, no. 875 (13. 07. 1942, Prague -> Terezín)
Transport Dm, no. 3067 (06. 09. 1943, Terezín -> Auschwitz)
Murdered
https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/115957-max-porges/
married
Kamila Geschmay (b.10/05/1887, d. KZ Auschwitz ca. 10/1943)
Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague XI, Potštejnská 18
Transport AAq, no. 876 (13. 07. 1942, Prague -> Terezín)
Transport Dm, no. 3068 (06. 09. 1943, Terezín -> Auschwitz)
Murdered
https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/115929-kamila-porgesova/ |
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Milada Porges (b. 27/12/1909, d. KZ Auschwitz ca 10/1944)
Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague XI, Štítného 18
Transport Ba, no. 1196 (10. 08. 1942, Prague -> Terezín)
Transport Eo, no. 897 (06. 10. 1944, Terezín -> Auschwitz)
Murdered
https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/115958-milada-porgesova/
married
Dr. Jur. Josef Porges (b. Zlonin CZ 26/11/1900, d. KZ Dachau 20/04/1945)
Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague XI, Potštejnská 18
Transport Ba, no. 868 (10. 08. 1942, Prague -> Terezín)
Transport Em, no. 966 (01. 10. 1944, Terezín -> Auschwitz)
Murdered 20. 04. 1945 Dachau
https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/115920-josef-porges/ |
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Otto
Porges (b. Prague 08/04/1888, d. KZ Auschwitz ca. 1943)
Last residence before deportation: Prague I
Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague XI, Ochranovská 11
Transport De, no. 424 (05. 07. 1943, Prague -> Terezín)
Transport Dl, no. 1648 (06. 09. 1943, Terezín -> Auschwitz)
Murdered
https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/115965-ota-porges/
married
Eliska/Elsa Goldschneider
(b. Merklin CZ 15/10/1896, d.KZ Auschwitz ca. 09/1943)
Last residence before deportation: Prague I
Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague XI, Ochranovská 11/959
Transport De, no. 426 (05. 07. 1943, Prague -> Terezín)
Transport Dl, no. 1650 (06. 09. 1943, Terezín -> Auschwitz)
Murdered
https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/115878-eliska-porgesova/ |
Edita/Edith Porges (b. 25/04/1920, d. ?)
Rosa Porges married Adolf Lustig
Ida Porges married Moritz Popper
Source : Geni 2018
Dr. Porges lived in Prague
and his portrait was sketched
by David Friedmann in Prague in 1941. |
In June 2007, Miriam Friedman Morris wrote :
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://chgs.elevator.umn.edu/asset/viewAsset/57fbeae37d58aea71c557594#57fbeae17d58aea71c557593
“Except for the
Czech writer Stefan Engel, all were murdered by Hitler.” (David Friedmann)
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The surviving
portraits are historically significant testimony
of a dynamic
Jewish community that was destroyed.
Top photos: Viktor Bergmann, Stefan Pollak, and Emil Metzl
Center
photo: Stefan
Engel
Bottom photos : Franz/František Porges, Hugo Stein, and Hugo Gerhard Königer |
For further info about David Friedmann please
see :
http://z.umn.edu/davidfriedmann
http://chgs.elevator.umn.edu/asset/viewAsset/57fbeae37d58aea71c557594#57fbeae17d58aea71c557593
the portraits from the Album of David Friedmann, Beit Theresienstadt and private collections have been posted on the site of the Jewish Museum in Prague :
http://collections.jewishmuseum.cz/index.php/Search/Index?search=DAvid+Friedmann
Source : Miriam Friedman Morris (June
2007)
Updated July 2018
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In 2018, Miriam Friedman Morris gave a presentation on the art and life of her father.
The recording is posted below.
David Friedman(n) [1893-1980] was a painter and graphics artist in Berlin renowned for his portraits drawn from life. His quick-sketching talents led to an additional career as a leading press artist of the 1920’s. However, almost his complete works were looted by the Gestapo in 1941. David depicted human fate as a refugee in Prague, as a prisoner in the Lodz Ghetto, in the Gleiwitz I sub-camp of Auschwitz, and as a survivor. He survived the Lodz Ghetto by sketching portraits of officials in exchange for provisions. In Gleiwitz I, his artistic skills were recognized and his life spared by the whims of the SS. His wife and little daughter were ultimately killed despite his efforts to save them. Though David eventually remarried and built a new life first in Czechoslovakia, then Israel, Chicago, and finally in St. Louis, Missouri, he continued painting scenes from his tortured past. The responsibility of bearing witness weighed heavily on his conscience, even before his liberation. To give form to all that misery, to show it to the world - this was always his intent. Torn from his memories, he created the powerful series, Because They Were Jews!
David’s daughter Miriam from his second marriage has spent her life consumed by a drive to rescue his legacy from oblivion and ensure its rightful place in history. Knowing that his work would best survive through her own perseverance, Miriam has found herself on her own journey which has led to personal discovery unveiling lost history and prewar works. David’s art weaves a tapestry of the joys and horrors that he experienced, witnessed and chronicled. Significant exhibitions of her father’s art resulting from her successful pursuits have created a stronger conviction to preserve the legacy of David Friedmann for future generations. |
© Miriam Friedman Morris from The Ripple Project
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