Amalia Porges née Elbogen
Sub-clan L Karolinenthal anchor  

 

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Sub-clan L (Karolinenthal Porges family) – matriarchal anchor: Amalia Porges née Elbogen (b. ca. 1823, d. Friday 24 November 1905 around 5 p.m., in her 83rd year of life).

Residence at death: Prag-Karolinenthal. Funeral Sunday 26 November 1905 at 3 p.m. from the Israelite Cemetery, Strašnice. (Day-of-week check: 24 November 1905 = Friday ✓; 26 November = Sunday ✓.) Carriages departed from the "Spinka" at 2:30 p.m.

Husband: a Mr. Porges of Karolinenthal, predeceased before 1905. The Karolinenthal Porges sibship is reconstructed from the obituary as follows:

Karolinenthal Porges sibship (parental generation, named in 1905 as "brothers-and-sisters-in-law" of Amalia):

  • Mr. Porges (Amalia's predeceased husband)
  • Moses Porges (alive 1905)
  • Sofie Schulhof née Porges (alive 1905; later subject of her own 1912 obituary, see Other Prague Porges branches)
  • Anna Porges née Radisch (= Anna Kadisch, alive 1905, see Philipp Porges 1856-1925 page; "Radisch" in this 1905 notice is an O.C.R. variant of "Kadisch", confirmed by day-of-week analysis of the 1907 Anna Kadisch death notice)
  • Franziska Porges née Meißner (alive 1905)

Amalia's children:

Advokat Dr. Josef Porges – married Gabriele Porges née Wantoch (daughter-in-law, alive 1905). The same Dr. Josef Porges, Advokat is named in the 1907 Anna Kadisch obituary's relatives list.

Emilie Goldstein née Porges – married Hermann Goldstein (son-in-law, alive 1905). Children: Emil, Oskar, Robert Goldstein and Fritzi Porges (suggesting Fritzi may have been a daughter of Dr. Josef Porges, since the surname is Porges not Goldstein).

Friederike Elbogen née Pokorny – also named as a brother/sister-in-law, indicating Amalia had a Pokorny-married brother named Elbogen. The Bohemian-Czech surname Pokorný (the humble) is one of the more common in-married surnames.

Holocaust trajectory

Sub-clan L members at high Holocaust risk (Karolinenthal residence + Prague identification):

  • Advokat Dr. Josef Porges – b. ca. 1853, the page PhilippPorges1856-1925.html records him as "Josef Porges (b.1853, d. Prague ca 1929) married Gabriele Wantoch (b. 1860, d. Prague 1920)" — both deceased before Holocaust era, spared
  • Emil, Oskar, Robert Goldstein – b. ca. 1885-1895, would have been ca. 43-53 in 1938 — top Holocaust risk, search Goldstein name in holocaust.cz / Yad Vashem
  • Fritzi Porges – b. ca. 1888-1898, top Holocaust risk if she remained in Prague

Sub-clan L is now the third-most documented Karolinenthal Porges sub-clan, joining Sub-clan BD (Karlín Katharina Porges 1928), Sub-clan BM (Marie Reich née Porges Karolinenthal 1915), and Sub-clan BY (Resie Schalek 1915, see Schalek-Porges Adolf cohort).

 

Source: obituaries published in Prager Tagblatt (Prague, 1878–1938) and Neue Freie Presse (Vienna, 1864–1939).