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Sub-clan O — matriarchal anchor: Amalie Porges née Perlsee
(b. ca. 1828-1829, d. Prague Thursday 25 September 1884, in her 56th year of
life, of pulmonary paralysis "after several months of severe suffering").
Body transferred Friday 26 September 1884 at 3:45 p.m. from the Israelite
Funeral Hall to the Wolschan / Olšany Israelite Cemetery (then still the main
Prague Jewish cemetery, before Strašnice opened in 1890).
Cause of death: Lungenlähmung (pulmonary paralysis = terminal
respiratory exhaustion), most plausibly chronic pulmonary tuberculosis given
the months-long course of progressive decline.
Husband — Isak Porges, merchant of Prague
Isak Porges, Kaufmann (merchant) — alive 1884. The traditional
Hebraic given name "Isak" (= Yitzhak / Isaac) marks this branch as
religiously-traditional, distinct from the more assimilated Vienna-bourgeois
Porges branches whose patriarchs typically bore German given names (David,
Sigmund, Eduard, Carl). Isak Porges of Prague is otherwise undocumented
in the FamilyTreesBiographies corpus — Sub-clan O is therefore a
previously-unrecognised early Bohemian Porges branch.
Family
Mother: Caroline Perlsee (alive 1884, surviving her daughter).
Daughter: Ottilie Porges, widowed Kowanitz — Amalie's only
named child. Ottilie's husband Mr. Kowanitz had predeceased her by 1884; she
is signing as "Porges, widowed Kowanitz" — a rare faire-part construction
implying she had reverted to her maiden Porges identity after Kowanitz's death.
Perlsee siblings — multi-marriage Bohemian-Jewish bourgeois cluster
Eight named Perlsee siblings (alive 1884):
• Marcus Perlsee
• Julie Bunzel née Perlsee — married a Bunzel
• Ignaz Perlsee
• Bernard Perlsee
• Wilhelm Perlsee
• Pauline Bischitzki née Perlsee (widowed) — married a Bischitzki
• Lucie Schwarzkopf née Perlsee — married a Schwarzkopf
• Mathilde Klepetař née Perlsee — married a Klepetař
The Perlsee-Bunzel connection (via sister Julie) opens a possible
Bunzel-Porges retrospective implication — the Bunzl-Biach industrial dynasty
(see Roza Porges née Biach 1919, Vienna-Reichenau) operated in the same
Bohemian-Vienna Jewish-bourgeois milieu.
Holocaust trajectory
Sub-clan O's only named direct descendant — Ottilie Porges widowed Kowanitz
(b. ca. 1850-1855) — would have been ca. 83-88 in 1938, deportation-eligible
if alive. Search holocaust.cz for Kowanitz / Porges Bohemian-resident
transports. The numerous Perlsee-line collateral descendants
(Bunzel, Bischitzki, Schwarzkopf, Klepetař families) extend the Holocaust
search target across multiple in-law families.
Source: obituaries published in Prager Tagblatt (Prague, 1878–1938) and Neue Freie Presse (Vienna, 1864–1939).
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