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family trees, biographies, illustrations and stories about the Porges families around the world.

Discover what they have achieved in the :
arts, literature, industry, religion, politics, ...

If you are a Porges, may be will you discover ancestors or remote cousins.

The site is based on documents, articles and websites in German, French, English, Czech, Croatian and Hebrew.

 

The design of the site was inspired
by the paintings of Barnett Newman


A genealogy site is under construction forever ....



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We are looking for information about a Dr. Porges who lived in Prague
and whose portrait was sketched by David Friedmann in Prague in 1941.

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Previous additions

Porgès Laboratories (France), a medical device manufacturer

Porges in Terezin

Cemeteries of Prague

Cemetery of Pilsen

Jews in Vienna, Czechs in Vienna

History of the Habsburg Jews

Spoliations

Jules Porgès, the diamond magnate (Vienna 1839- Paris1921), his residence and social life in Paris

The real estate assets of Jules Porgès

The Porges von Portheim document and photo gallery

A dark side.... Jules Porgès and the Dreyfus Affair

If you are the descendants of :
Porges, Anton and Porges, Emilie or Porges, Nelly and Porges, Friedrich
who lived in Vienna just before WWII,then you might have rights to their dormant account in Switzerland.
For further information, look up the following web sites :
http://www.crt-ii.org/ or http://www.porges.net/ViennaPhoneBooks1932to1938.html

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