Anna Porges née Resek
Sub-clan W2 (Příbram)  

 

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Sub-clan W2 — matriarchal anchor: Anna Porges née Resek (b. ca. 1831-1832, d. Příbram Friday 19 April 1912 at 5 p.m., in her 81st year of life, after "a pious, God-pleasing life-conduct").

Funeral on Sunday 21 April 1912 at 3 p.m. at the local Israelite Cemetery in Příbram. (Day-of-week check: 19 April 1912 = Friday ✓; 21 April 1912 = Sunday ✓.)

Anna is one of the earliest-born documented Porges-married women in the corpus, b. 1831-1832 — contemporary with Anna Porges née Kadisch (b. 1831, see Philipp Porges 1856-1925) and Sara Porges née Bondy (b. ca. 1832, see Other Prague Porges branches).

Příbram — major silver-mining town with substantial Jewish community

Příbram (German: Pibrans), ~60 km southwest of Prague, was one of the most important Bohemian silver-mining centres from the medieval period onward. By 1912 it had a substantial Jewish community with synagogue and cemetery (both still partially preserved). This makes Sub-clan W2 the second documented P�íbram Porges sub-clan after Sub-clan R (Babette Porges née Abeles, †22 January 1931, Příbram, age 86) and the third after Sub-clan BJ (Marie Porges of Příbram, †26 November 1913).

Porges-Porges cousin marriage explicitly documented

The most genealogically significant detail of this faire-part is Toške Porges née Porges — Anna's daughter-in-law who was born a Porges AND married a Porges. This is a textbook Porges-Porges cousin marriage, explicitly documented. "Toške" is a Czech-Bohemian diminutive of Theresia / Tereza, consistent with the Příbram rural-Bohemian identity.

Family

Husband: a Mr. Porges, predeceased before 1912 (identity unstated).

Children (alive 1912):

Malvine London née Porges — married Arnold London

Adolf Porges

Josef Porges

Emma Helming née Porges — married Louis Helming

Richard Porges

Daughters-in-law and sons-in-law: Milli Porges née Bondy, Toške Porges née Porges (the cousin marriage), Arnold London, Louis Helming.

Brothers (Resek family): Heinrich Resek, Emanuel Resek (alive 1912).

Bondy connection — cross-corpus implication

Anna's daughter-in-law Milli Porges née Bondy echoes the Bondy maiden surname documented in Sub-clan B (Amalia Porges née Bondy, †August 1912 Prague, wife of Sigmund Porges). Both Bondy-Porges marriages are dated within months of each other in 1912, suggesting a structurally significant Bondy in-law family maintaining multiple Porges marriages — Amalia and Milli could be sisters, first cousins, or aunt-niece.

Holocaust trajectory

Anna's children (b. ca. 1860-1880) were likely deceased of natural causes by 1938; her grandchildren (b. ca. 1885-1910) were the prime deportation cohort. P�íbram-resident Porges descendants — Adolf, Josef, Richard, and the London/Helming families — are top-priority research targets.

 

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