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Sub-clan CA — anchored by Rosa Fischer née Porges
(d. Prague Tuesday 5 February 1901 — "tonight, most deeply shaken, we hereby
give the news of the passing").
Residence: Wenzelsplatz No. 70 (Václavské náměstí, Prague Old Town /
New Town boundary). Funeral Thursday 7 February 1901 at 2 p.m. from the house
of mourning to the new Israelite Cemetery at Strašnice. (Day-of-week check:
5 February 1901 = Tuesday ✓; 7 February 1901 = Thursday ✓.)
Both surviving parents — uniquely-documented configuration
The most extraordinary detail of this faire-part is that both of Rosa's
parents are alive in 1901: Jacob Porges and Julie Porges are
named "as parents". This is one of only a handful of documented occurrences
in the corpus where BOTH parents survive their adult Porges-born child —
a tragic generational inversion.
Most Porges obituaries by this period name the deceased's children and
daughters/sons-in-law as primary mourners; here the parents are named first,
indicating Rosa's death pre-1901 was unexpected and that her parental anchors
were still active in Prague Jewish society.
Cross-corpus integration — Jacob Porges + Julie Porges identification
"Jacob Porges + Julie Porges" as parental anchors of Sub-clan CA opens a
major cross-corpus question. Multiple Jacob Porges and Julie Porges figures
appear in the documented corpus:
- Jacob Porges (~1828-1899, †Reichenau) ⚭ Rosa Biach (Sub-clan I) —
this Jacob died in 1899, two years before Rosa Fischer's 1901 obituary,
making him eligible as her father (Rosa Fischer would have been b. ca. 1860-1875
making Jacob 33-47 at her birth, plausible)
- JacobPorgesIII.html (Bondy line) — different generation
- Other Jacob Porges figures in Scholars or Jonas Simon Porges page
The Jacob Porges (~1828-1899) ⚭ Rosa Biach identification (Sub-clan I)
appears chronologically inconsistent — Jacob was already deceased by Rosa
Fischer's 1901 obituary. Therefore the Sub-clan CA "Jacob Porges + Julie Porges"
parental couple is most plausibly a previously-undocumented Jacob Porges
of Prague, distinct from the Vienna Bunzl-Biach Jacob (Sub-clan I).
Family
Husband: Eduard Fischer (alive 1901).
Parents: Jacob Porges, Julie Porges (both alive 1901).
Children (alive 1901): Hedwig, Richard, Victor — all minors
or young adults, surviving their mother.
"All siblings, brothers-in-law, and sisters-in-law" are mentioned collectively
without individual naming.
Holocaust trajectory
Children Hedwig, Richard, Victor (b. ca. 1885-1900) were the prime Holocaust
deportation cohort, ca. 38-57 in 1938.
- Search holocaust.cz for Fischer Prague-resident transports 1942-1944
- Particular focus on Hedwig Fischer / her married name; Richard and Victor Fischer
Source: obituaries published in Prager Tagblatt (Prague, 1878–1938) and Neue Freie Presse (Vienna, 1864–1939).
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