Amalie Porges née Perlsee
Sub-clan O  

 

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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).