Dr. Porges lived in Prague
and his portrait was sketched by David Friedmann in Prague in 1941.
In 2018, thanks to Miriam Friedman and geni.com, we could find out who he was :
Dr. Jur. Franz/Frantisek Porges (b. 14/06/1908, d. KZ Auschwitz ca 09/1943)
Last residence before deportation: Prague XII
Address/place of registration in the Protectorate: Prague XI, Lucembursk 5
Transport H, no. 732 (30. 11. 1941, Prague -> Terezn)
Transport Dl, no. 1652 (06. 09. 1943, Terezn -> Auschwitz)
Murdered https://www.holocaust.cz/en/database-of-victims/victim/140599-frantisek-porges/
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
Lwinger (or Lvinger).
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.
