Sub-clan AD — matriarchal anchor: Emilie Porges née Nossal (d. Teplitz, Wednesday 8 January 1896 at 10 a.m., of cardiac paralysis, "from this life devoted to her family with self-sacrificing love and care").

Funeral on Friday 10 January 1896 at 2 p.m. from the house of mourning to the Israelite Cemetery in Teplitz. (Day-of-week check: 8 January 1896 = Wednesday ✓; 10 January 1896 = Friday ✓.)

Teplitz / Teplice — major Sudeten spa town

Teplitz (Czech: Teplice) is in North Bohemia, ~70 km north of Prague near the German border. By 1896 it was one of Europe's most famous thermal-spa destinations (Goethe, Beethoven and Casanova all visited), with population ~30,000 and a substantial German-speaking Sudetenland Jewish minority. The Teplitz Jewish community had a major synagogue (built 1882, destroyed by Nazis in 1938) and a still-preserved Israelite Cemetery.

This is the third documented Sudeten Porges sub-clan, joining Sub-clan Q (Karoline Ascher née Porges of Aussig, sister-in-law of Anna Porges-Pilsen) and Sub-clan AA (Director Josef Reis of Brüx, child of Caroline Reis née Porges 1896 — see Caroline Reis née Porges).

Family — Habsburg military and industrial connections

Husband: Samuel Porges (alive 1896).

Father: Jacob Nossal (alive 1896) — strikingly, he survives his daughter.

Children (alive 1896): Elsa, Otto, Melanie, Lili, Irene Porges (five named children, all minors or young adults).

Brothers-in-law (Nossal sisters' husbands) — a highly distinguished Habsburg professional cohort:

• Benedikt Nossal, k.u.k. Senior Staff Physician — Habsburg military medical officer

• Philipp Dub, building contractor (Bauunternehmer)

• Gottfried Löwy, mine owner (Bergwerksbesitzer)

• Jacob Herzberg, corporate signatory (Prokurist)

Siblings: Mathilde Nossal, Paula Dub, Flora Löwy, Richard Nossal k.u.k. Lieutenant (Habsburg military officer).

Holocaust trajectory

The five named children (b. ca. 1880-1895) would have been 43-58 years old in 1938 — at the centre of the Sudeten persecution wave. Teplitz fell to the Nazis after the September 1938 Munich Agreement and the Sudeten Jewish community was largely dispersed or destroyed within months.

• Search holocaust.cz for Porges Teplitz-resident transports — particularly Elsa, Otto, Melanie, Lili and Irene Porges (or their married names)
• Cross-check with Aussig (Sub-clan Q) and Brüx (Sub-clan AA) Sudeten Porges branches

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