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Sub-clan BJ – matriarchal anchor: Marie Porges of Příbram
(d. Žižkov, 26 November 1913).
The obituary is highly minimalist (only a few lines), but supplies the
dispersal of her surviving family across five distinct localities in
Bohemia and Moravia, making this one of the most geographically diffuse
Porges branches in the corpus.
Buried at the New Israelite Cemetery, Strašnice, on Thursday 27 November 1913
at 3:45 p.m.
Maiden name not stated; "of Příbram" indicates either her birth-town or her
late husband's home town (Příbram, ~60 km SW of Prague, was a major silver-mining
centre with a substantial Jewish community).
The phrase "Our good mother... has gently passed away" addresses the family
collectively, without enumerating spouse or specific siblings. The closing line
lists the "Families" of children and sons-in-law:
• MUDr. Hermann Porges, Prague – the first documented MUDr. Hermann
in the Porges-family corpus (Doctor of Medicine)
• Josef Kellner, Žižkov (today Praha 3) – son-in-law (married a
daughter of Marie's; daughter's first name not given in the announcement)
• Richard Porges, Žižkov
• Leopold Fantel, Schüttenhofen (Sušice, ~140 km SW of Prague,
on the Moldau/Vltava upstream) – son-in-law
• Alfred Porges, Humpoletz (Humpolec, in Bohemian-Moravian
Highlands ~100 km SE of Prague, a textile-industry town)
The five-locality dispersal (Prague + Žižkov + Žižkov + Schüttenhofen + Humpoletz)
reveals a transnational late-imperial Bohemian Jewish merchant network spanning
the Czech-language regions of central, southern and southwestern Bohemia.
The presence of TWO sons-in-law (Kellner, Fantel) means at least 2 of Marie's
children were daughters; the three remaining named — Hermann, Richard, Alfred —
were sons.
The address residence "Žižkov-PRAGUE" in the dateline indicates Marie
herself died in Žižkov, the working-class district named after the Hussite
warrior Jan Žižka, which had a developed Jewish community by the late 19th century.
Holocaust trajectory
By 1938-1945, Marie's named children would have been ca. 60-80 years old. Each is
a high-priority Holocaust search target:
- MUDr. Hermann Porges, Prague – cross-check holocaust.cz database for Prague-resident Hermann Porges
- Richard Porges, Žižkov – cross-check holocaust.cz for Žižkov-resident Richard Porges
- Alfred Porges, Humpoletz – cross-check holocaust.cz for Humpolec-resident Alfred Porges
- Daughters Mrs. Kellner (Žižkov) and Mrs. Fantel (Schüttenhofen) – cross-check holocaust.cz for Kellner/Fantel families
⚠️ Reservation: the obituary does not give a maiden name, age,
or husband's identity. The branch designation as "Sub-clan BJ" is provisional
until corroborating obituaries (Hermann's, Richard's, Alfred's) are located.
Source: obituaries published in Prager Tagblatt (Prague, 1878–1938) and Neue Freie Presse (Vienna, 1864–1939).
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