Amalie Porges née Pereles
Sub-clan D / N junction  

 

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Sub-clan D with cross-link to Sub-clan N: Amalie Porges née Pereles (b. ca. 1862, d. Prague 9 December 1913 — "torn from us suddenly" — in her 52nd year).

Buried at the Strašnice Israelite Cemetery on Friday 12 December 1913 at 2 p.m. The phrase "the day before yesterday, suddenly, in her 52nd year of life, was torn from us by inexorable death" indicates a sudden unexpected death on Tuesday 9 December 1913. (Day-of-week check: 9 December 1913 = Tuesday ✓; 11 December = Thursday ✓; 12 December = Friday ✓.)

Husband: a Mr. Porges, predeceased before 1913 (the obituary describes Amalie as "daughter-in-law" with surviving mother-in-law Fanny Porges).

Surviving daughter: Martha Porges (alive 1913).

Pereles siblings (alive 1913):

Regine Freund née Pereles – married Josef Freund (named as brother-in-law)

Max Pereles

Adolf Pereles – married Auguste Pereles, then later Paula Pereles (or these are two sisters-in-law of Amalie)

Mother-in-law: Fanny Porges (alive 1913).

Brother- / sister-in-law: Alois Porges (alive 1913). The same Alois Porges is named as son in the 1913 Anna Porges née Knotek obituary, confirming the Sub-clan D / Sub-clan N junction.

The presence of Regine Rothziegel as additional sister-in-law indicates either a fourth Pereles sibling (married Mr. Rothziegel) or a Rothziegel sibling of Amalie's predeceased Porges husband.

Cross-corpus integration: Sub-clan D ↔ Sub-clan N

The 1913 Anna Porges née Knotek obituary (Sub-clan N matriarch, †6 August 1913, age 69) names Alois Porges as one of her sons. The 1913 Amalie Porges née Pereles obituary (this entry, †9 December 1913) names Alois Porges as her brother-in-law. The strongest reading is therefore:

  1. Anna Porges née Knotek (alive in early 1913, d. 6 August 1913) had a son named X Porges who married Amalie Pereles.
  2. X Porges predeceased Amalie before December 1913.
  3. Anna Knotek = "Fanny Porges" of the December 1913 Pereles obituary (the same person, with "Fanny" as familiar diminutive of Anna).
  4. Alternatively (and the chronological objection raised earlier suggests this), Fanny ≠ Anna, in which case Sub-clan N has TWO matriarchs (Anna Knotek as biological mother of Alois; Fanny Porges as mother of Amalie's predeceased husband, a separate but allied figure).

⚠️ Reservation: the Anna Knotek = Fanny Porges identification remains unresolved. The four-month gap between Anna's death (6 August 1913) and the Pereles announcement (11 December 1913, naming "Fanny Porges, mother-in-law" as if alive) cuts in favour of Fanny ≠ Anna — i.e. Fanny was a still-living distinct figure. Confirmation would require a future obituary disambiguating the two.

The given name Martha Porges (Amalie's surviving 1913 daughter) is preserved into the 1937 Vienna deportation period. A Martha Porges of the right age cohort (b. ca. 1900-1910) could appear in Vienna or Prague Holocaust records — search target.

 

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