Rosa Fischer née Porges
Sub-clan CA  

 

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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).